OECD’s 2004 Economic Review of the Euro area puts forward a number of policy recommendations that seek to heighten the area’s resilience against adverse shocks, to reap the benefits from deeper integration, and to reverse the persistent underutilisation of labour and weak productivity in lagging regions and countries. This edition’s special feature is titled Regions at Work. 

Table of contents
Assessment and recommendations
Outlook and challenges
Managing the single currency
Fiscal coordination at the crossroads
One money, one cycle?
Regions at work
Annexes