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Economic survey of Portugal 2008: Securing fiscal consolidation

25-Jun-2008

The broad consolidation programme has succeeded in cutting the fiscal deficit. It is important to secure the results achieved. Reforms in the public administration and pensions are noteworthy. 

Economic survey of Portugal 2008: Economic performance and key challenges

25-Jun-2008

The fiscal deficit has fallen and the business environment is improved, but the reform process needs to be deepened to boost productivity and output growth, promote job creation and raise living standards.

Portugal on track with its public sector simplification programme, says OECD report

18-Jun-2008

Portugal has made good progress in simplifying its public sector functions and processes through administrative simplification and e-government since 2006, according to a new OECD report.

Portuguese websites on agri-environmental issues

16-Jun-2008

Links to sites from Portugal on agri-environmental issues.

Primary School Architecture in Portugal: A Case Study - PEB Exchange, June 2008

09-Jun-2008

Describing primary schools in a small city in Portugal is an opportunity for an overall look at the evolution of schools in general as special public buildings. A look at four of the six primary schools ...

Local Development Benefits from Staging Global Events

27-Mar-2008

This book identifies how international events work as a trigger for local development and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that positive local development is realised.

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2008 - Portugal Country Note

04-Mar-2008

This note, taken from Chapter 2 of Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2008, contains information about the progress in implementing reforms in line with the 2007 priorities for Portugal. 

Modernising Portugal’s Secondary Schools - PEB Exchange, February 2008

08-Feb-2008

In March 2007, the Portuguese government announced an ambitious plan to modernise secondary schools by improving the quality and usefulness of its teaching and learning facilities, while putting schools back into the centre of the community of which they are an integral part.