Assessment and Recommendations
I. Macroeconomic Developments and Policy Challenges
-Recent Developments
-The Short-Term Outlook
-Risks and Policy Challenges
II. Maintaining Sound Public Finances
-Trends in Public Finances in Recent Decades
-High Expenditures and Weak Controls
-Enhancing Efficiency and Expenditure Control in the Future
-Conclusions
III. Structural Surveillance
-Policies to Reduce Structural Unemployment
-Increasing Labour Supply
-Improving the Efficiency of Educational Policies
-Tax Policies
-Housing Policies
-Competition and Regulation
-Assessment and Scope for Further Action
IV. Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth
-Introduction
-Institutions
-Policy Targets and Policy Issues
-Conclusions
Annex I. Changes in User Charging
Annex II. Chronology of Main Economic Events