Austria

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Economic Survey of Austria 2009: Facing the financial crisis

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02-Jul-2009

Austria entered the most severe recession in decades. This triggered prompt policy measures to stabilise the real economy and financial markets, which will deteriorate significantly the fiscal position.

Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for Austria

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23-Jun-2009

Austria has the second highest public spending on pensions in the 30 OECD countries (after Italy)... The pension replacement rate (pension entitlements relative to earnings) of 80% is much higher than the OECD average of 59%...

Senior budget official country reviews of budgeting systems

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09-Dec-2008

The objective of senior budget official country reviews is to provide a comprehensive overview of the budget process in the country under examination, to evaluate national experiences in the light of international best practice and to provide specific policy recommendations.

Economic Survey of Austria 2009: Medium-term fiscal policy challenges

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02-Jul-2008

Significant fiscal consolidation will be needed after the recession. The authorities should improve the spending and tax structure, efficiency of public spending and continue with fiscal federalism reforms

Pensions at a Glance 2007: Highlights - Austria

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07-Jun-2007

This document presents the main highlights for Austria from Pensions at a Glance 2007: Austria has the second highest public spending on pensions in the 30 OECD countries; even after recent changes to ...

Reforming federal fiscal relations in Austria

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30-Jan-2006

Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Wörgötter

This paper reviews the fiscal relations between the three levels of government in Austria and points to the scope for reforming them with a view to improving the efficiency of the public sector.  Economics Department Working Paper 474.

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Fragmented decision making needs to be reduced

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31-May-2005

Economic Survey of Austria 2005, excerpt taken from chapter 3. Financing and spending responsibilities in some spending programmes, such as hospital care and social assistance, need to be concentrated ...

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Reforming federal fiscal relations

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31-May-2005

Revisiting the distribution of tasks as well as the funding principles across the levels of government is likely to have a high potential to improve public sector efficiency.

Economic Survey of Austria 2005: Fiscal policy issues

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31-May-2005

To achieve fiscal consolidation while raising public sector efficiency, budgeting procedures should be improved. Distortions in the tax system should be reduced and  pension reform needs to be completed.

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...