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Assessment and recommendations

I. Austria in line with the international business cycle

Overview

The economy slowed during 2000

Short-term prospects and risks

II. Fiscal policy: consolidation to be associated with reform

The 1999 budget: fiscal consolidation at a halt

The 2000 budget outcome: containing the deficit

The 2001 and 2002 budgets: towards a balanced budget

Medium-term fiscal plans

Issues in public sector reform

III. Implementing structural reform: a review of progress

Progress in labour market and education reform

Reforms in the product market

Measures to improve entrepreneurship

Financial market developments and regulation

Overview and scope for further action

IV. Encouraging environmentally sustainable growth

The federal institutional structure

Austria's CO2 reduction target under the Kyoto protocol

Agriculture and the environment