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The increasing importance of financial education

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02-Oct-2008

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

In his remarks delivered at a conference on financial awareness organised by the Hungarian Central Bank, Mr. Gurría affirmed that a well functioning financial system requires better consumer-oriented financial education.

Economic Survey of Hungary 2005: Entrenching macroeconomic stability and smoothing entry to the euro area

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19-Jul-2005

This Chapter discusses the challenges for monetary and fiscal policy given the government’s goal of joining the European Monetary Union in 2010.

Economic Survey - Hungary 2004: Macroeconomic Policy

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28-Jan-2004

The OECD Economic Survey for Hungary concludes that substantial measures are needed to bring about sustainable fiscal consolidation and that monetary policy faces difficult challenges given the Hungarian authorities’ ambitions to join the euro zone.

DEV Centre WP 218: Float in Order to Fix? Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries

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26-Nov-2003

Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen

"Argentina, Chile and Mexico, Spain and Portugal: même combat! Having established macroeconomic discipline, structural reform and democracy at home, their governments would like to set these achievements in stone by joining a rich-country club.

Establishing financial discipline: experience with bankcruptcy legislation in Central and Eastern European countries

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15-Dec-1995

Jean-Marc Burniaux

A major challenge of economic transition in central and eastern European countries is creating the institutional framework crucial to market operation. OECD Economic Studies No. 25.

Financial crisis: Save our savings

Amid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, EU leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily.

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