Editorial: Still Buoyant Overall, but Vulnerable
I. General Assessment of the Macroeconomic Situation
-Overview
-The Expansion is Strengthening
-But Tensions Keep Building
-A Still Benign Outlook
-Challenges for Macroeconomic Policy
-Appendix I.1. Revised OECD Supply-Side Estimates: A Capital Services Approach
-Appendix I.2. The Medium-Term Reference Scenario
II. Developments in Individual OECD Countries and Selected Non-Member Economies
-United States
-Japan
-Euro Area
-Germany
-France
-Italy
-United Kingdom
-Canada
-Australia
-Austria
-Belgium
-Czech Republic
-Denmark
-Finland
-Greece
-Hungary
-Iceland
-Ireland
-Korea
-Luxembourg
-Mexico
-Netherlands
-New Zealand
-Norway
-Poland
-Portugal
-Slovak Republic
-Spain
-Sweden
-Switzerland
-Turkey
-Brazil
-China
-India
-Russian Federation
III. Future Budget Pressures Arising from Spending on Health and Long-Term Care
-Appendix: Cost Containment Policies in OECD Countries: An Overview
Statistical Annex
-1. Real GDP
-2. Nominal GDP
-3. Real Private Consumption Expenditure
-4. Real Public Consumption Expenditure
-5. Real Gross Fixed Capital Formation
-6. Real Gross Private Non-Residential Fixed Capital Formation
-7. Real Gross Private Residential Fixed Capital Formation
-8. Real Total Domestic Demand
-9. Foreign Balance Contributions to Changes in Real GDP
-10. Output Gaps
-11. Compensaton per Employee in the Business Sector
-12. Labour Productivity for the Total Economy
-13. Unemployment Rates: Commonly Used Definitions
-14. Standardised Unemployment Rates
-15. Labour Force, Employment, and Unemployment
-16. GDP Deflators
-17. Private Consumption Deflators
-18. Consumer Price Indices
-19. Oil and Other Primary Commodity Markets
-20. Employment Rates, Participation Rates and Labour Force
-21. Potential GDP, Employment and Capital Stock
-22. Structural Unemployment, Wage Shares and Unit Labour Costs
-23. Household Savings Rates
-24. Gross National Savings
-25. General Government Total Outlays
-26. General Government Current Tax and Non-Tax Receipts
-27. General Government Financial Balances
-28. Cyclically-Adjusted General Government Balances
-29. General Government Primary Balances
-30. Cyclically-Adjusted General Government Primary Balances
-31. General Government Net Debt Interest Payments
-32. General Government Gross Financial Liabilities
-33. General Government Net Financial Liabilities
-34. Short-Term Interest Rates
-35. Long-Term Interest Rates
-36. Nominal Exchange Rates (vis-a-vis the US Dollar)
-37. Effective Exchange Rates
-38. Export Volumes of Goods and Services
-39. Import Volumes of Goods and Services
-40. Export Prices of Goods and Services
-41. Import Prices of Goods and Services
-42. Competitive Positions: Relative Consumer Prices
-43. Competitive Positions: Relative Unit Labour Costs
-44. Export Performance for Total Goods and Services
-45. Shares in World Exports and Imports
-46. Geographical Structure of World Trade Growth
-47. Trade Balances for Goods and Services
-48. Investment Income, Net
-49. Total Transfers, Net
-50. Current Account Balances
-51. Current Accounts Balances at a per cent of GDP
-52. Structure of Current Account Balances of Major World Regions
-53. Export Market Growth in Goods and Services
-54. Import Penetration
-55. Quarterly Demand and Output Projections
-56. Quarterly Price, Cost, and Unemployment Projections
-57. Contributions to Changes tn Real GDP in OECD Countries
-58. Household Wealth and Indebtedness
-59. Central Government Financial Balances
-60. Maastricht Definition of General Government Gross Public Debt
-61. Monetary and Credit Aggregates: Recent Trends