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• Fiscal balances and public indebtedness

  - 2006-12-01

  Annex Table 25. General government total outlays Per cent of nominal GDP 1989 1990 ...

  Tags: Germany, Government, Greece, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, OECD, outlay, Poland, Portugal, Republic, U.S.

• German deficit seen back within EU limits by 2007: OECD

  - 2006-05-23

  PARIS AFP — Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, will be able to bring its public deficit back within EU limits by 2007, the OECD predicted. It forecast that the German deficit, which amounted to 3.3 percent of gross domestic product GDP last year, should narrow further to 3.1 percent...

  Tags: FINANCE, Germany, Government, inflation, OECD, Taxes, VAT

• Information or regulation: what drives the international activities of commercial banks?

  - 2003-12-01

  INFORMATION COSTS and regulatory barriers distinguish international financial markets from domestic ones. International banking activities are particularly affected since their ability to overcome information asymmetries is one of the main reasons why banks exist (see, e.g., Freixas and Rochet 1998) and since the banking industry has traditionally been one of...

  Tags: asset, bank, Banking, coefficient, Directive, financial, France, Germany, Government, OECD, regression, regulation, U.K., U.S., WORKING

• The state of the welfare state: German social policy between macroeconomic retrenchment and microeconomic recalibration.

  - 2003-10-01

  Germany's welfare state has been exposed to severe challenges since the mid-1970s. This article takes stock of the state of German social policy. It sketches the development and patterns of social expenditure since the 1980s and provides an overview of the social policy reforms enacted by the Kohl and Schroder...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Germany, Government, Insurance, Kohl, OECD, pension, SOFTWARE, welfare

• Rethinking Corporatism and Consensus: the dilemmas of German social-protection reform.

  - 2003-07-01

  This article explores the competing influences of institutional legacies and political negotiation in recent German social-protection reform. Long a paragon of consensus and gradual political change, the German political economy has adjusted poorly to the pressures of fiscal austerity and structural unemployment, creating pressures for an increasingly salient role for...

  Tags: benefit, financing, Germany, Government, job, Kohl, OECD, pension, reform, salary, SOFTWARE, tax, unemployment, worker

• General government financial balances

  - 2002-06-01

  Annex Table 28 General government financial balances Surplus (+) or deficit (-) as a percentage of nominal GDP ...

  Tags: Australia, Austria, Belgium, FINANCE, financial, Germany, Government, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, OECD, Portugal, Spain, U.S.

• Economic illusions.(Netherlands)(Industry Overview)

  - 2002-05-04

  Still prey to the business cycle The country's record on growth and employment is good, but not quite as good as it looks THE figures certainly look excellent. In the two decades since 1982, Dutch GDP has grown by an annual average...

  Tags: disability, FINANCE, Germany, Government, inflation, Netherlands, OECD, SOFTWARE, unemployment

• Dummkopf! Germany education.(Germany's schools get a bad report)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-12-15

  Germans have long been proud of their schooling. Too long, it seems THE shame of it! In a new study of school pupils' performance by the OECD, Germany, the world's third-biggest economic power, the "land of poets and thinkers", was ranked a miserable 21st out...

  Tags: education, EDUCATION, Germany, Government, OECD

• General government financial balances - Illustration - Statistical Data Included

  - 2001-12-01

  Annex Table 30 General government financial balances Surplus (+) or deficit (-) as a percentage of nominal GDP ...

  Tags: FINANCE, financial, Germany, Government, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, OECD, Portugal, Spain, U.S.

• General government structural balances - Illustration - Statistical Data Included

  - 2001-12-01

  Annex Table 31 General government structural balances Surplus (+) or deficit (-) as a percentage of potential GDP ...

  Tags: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Government, Greece, Iceland, Japan, Netherlands, OECD, Portugal, SOFTWARE, Spain