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Economic Survey of Greece 2009: Enhancing fiscal viability

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31-Jul-2009

The high public debt and a large pension burden heighten the urgency to improve the efficiency of the public sector to enhance fiscal viability and restore room for manoeuvre for stabilization policy.

Economic Survey of Greece 2009: Weathering the international crisis

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31-Jul-2009

High public debt leaves virtually no room for fiscal manoeuvre to limit the impact of the crisis in Greece. The close trade and banking links established with the Balkan countries might be a risk in the near future.

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.

The costs of delaying fiscal consolidation: a case study for Greece

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22-Oct-2007

Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou and David Turner

Since 2004, the fiscal deficit has been brought down by over 5% of GDP to below the 3% limit in 2006, which is a major achievement. The government plans a more gradual reduction over coming years so that overall balance or surplus is reached no later than 2010.

Economic survey of Greece 2007: The gains from prompt fiscal consolidation

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30-May-2007

Delaying fiscal consolidation, particularly the urgently needed pension reform, would have substantial longer-term costs in terms of higher taxes and additional debt service costs. In addition, this would heavily skew the tax burden towards future generations.
 

Economic Survey of Greece 2005: The fiscal challenge

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07-Jul-2005

In terms of real GDP growth, the Greek economy has performed very well in recent years and has weathered the international slowdown in activity better than most OECD countries. However, in part this has ...

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 ...

Seminar on Regulatory Transparency: The Use of Public Consultation to Improve the Investment Climate, Thessaloniki

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24-Oct-2002

Public consultation is one of the prime means by which policy makers gather feedback and information for regulatory and legislative proposals. The inclusion of major stakeholders advances the reform agenda.

Proceedings of the meeting Regulatory Transparency: the Use of Public Consultation to Improve the Investment Climate, November 2002

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23-Oct-2002

The Stability Pact is a declaration of commitment and a framework agreement on international co-operation among 40 countries, organisations and regional groupings to develop a shared strategy for ensuring ...

Country Responses to the Questionnaire on Strengthening Government-Citizen Connections

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02-Nov-2001

This page provides access to the responses of Flanders (Belgium), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal and the United Kingdom to the survey on Strengthening Government-Citizen Connections.