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""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Recent trends and short-term prospects""; ""Strong overall performance, but the labour market situation remains unsatisfactory""; ""Figure 1. Key indicators in long-term and international perspective""; ""Economic developments in 1999...

""Unemployment has continued to rise until recently""""Wage settlements have remained moderate, but inflation has veered up""; ""Table 3. Wages and prices""; ""Figure 3. Price developments""; ""Prospects for 2001 and 2002""; ""Table 4. Short-term projections""; ""II. Macroeconomic policy""; ""Mon...

""Table 5. Budget and outcomes""""Box 2. The 2000 Budget""; ""Table 6. The fiscal stance and public debt developments""; ""Are the fiscal objectives ambitious enough?""; ""Box 3. The 2001 Budget""; ""Medium-term public sector issues""; ""Pension reform needs to proceed""; ""The viability of the...

""Public sector management needs improving""""Figure 6. Public employment""; ""III. Progress in structural reform""; ""Figure 7. Growth performance""; ""Figure 8. Product market regulation""; ""Table 9. Recommendations for further structural reform""; ""Labour market reform""; ""The flexibility...

""Increase working time flexibility""""Active labour market policies and improvement of skill and competencies""; ""Product markets""; ""Subsidies to industry should be reined in""; ""Figure 10. Subsidies to industry""; ""Table 11. R&D expenditure and sources of funding""; ""Restructuring of the a...

""Sectoral reforms""