Assessment and Recommendations
I. Recent Trends and Short-Term Prospects
-An improving macroeconomic performance
-A large and increasing currrent external surplus
-Rapidly falling unemployment
-Stable prices and wages
-The outlook to 2002
II. Monetary and Fiscal Policies
-Monetary policy
-Fiscal policy
III. Progress in Structural Reform
-Backbround
-Product market competition
-Labour market flexibility
-Assessment
IV. Ageing: The Swiss Case
-Introduction
-The challenge of an ageing population
-Institutional arrangements for supporting the elderly
-Economic and financial implications of the existing network
-Assessment and agenda for reform
Annex I. Population projections, the system of retirement income, and incentives to retire
Annex II. Invalidity and early retirement
Annex III. The second-tier pension system
Annex IV. The Swiss health care system: problems and possible reforms
Annex V. Calendar of main economic events