This 1998 edition of OECD's periodic review of Germany's economy includes special features on reforming the federal fiscal system and on policies to promote growth and employment.
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Special Features: Reforming the Federal Fiscal System Policies to Promote Growth and Employment
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Assessment and recommendations I. Establishing the basis for longer-run growth -Overview -Improving macroeconomic fundamentals -The impact of structural adjustment -Medium-term perspectives II. Monetary and fiscal policies -Overview -Monetary Policy -Fiscal Policy III. Towards more efficient government: reforming federal fiscal relations -Introduction -Inter-governmental relations: consensus and coordination -The fiscal equalisation system -Implementing the Stability and Growth Pact: the need for a domestic equivalent -Matching expenditures and revenues: the case for greater state autonomy -Summing up IV. Implementing structural reform: a review of progress -Dimensions of the employment and unemployment problem -Progress in labour market reform -Improving skills, entrepreneurial dynamism, and competition -Overview of progress in structural reform Annex I: Simulating business sector employment and investment Annex II. Productivity and structural unemployment Annex III. Chronology of main economic events Annex IV. Statistical annex and structural indicators
