OECD economic surveys 2000-2001 : Norway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, publisher.

Series:

OECD Economic Surveys, 2001, No. 3

OECD Economic Surveys, 2001, No. 3 ; v.2001, No. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population aging--Economic aspects--Norway.

Population aging.

Economic history.

Norway--Economic conditions--1945-.

Norway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Cedex, France : OECD, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Norway's economy includes special features on structural policy and ageing.

Contents:

""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Macroeconomic performance""; ""Figure 1. Key indicators in long-term and international perspective""; ""Macroeconomic developments: tight labour and product markets""; ""The surge in oil production boosts exports""; ""Table 1. Demand and output""; ""Table 2. Exports by commodity""; ""Figure 2. Export performance and cost competitiveness""; ""Box 1. Does Norway suffer from the Dutch disease?""; ""Figure 3. External position""; ""Private consumption rebounded""; ""Figure 4. Household consumption""

""Figure 5. Asset prices""""Figure 6. The saving ratio in international perspective""; ""Investment continues to fall due to the oil sector""; ""Figure 7. The oil sector""; ""Figure 8. Business investment1""; ""The labour market: vacancies are at a high level""; ""Table 3. Employment developments""; ""Figure 9. Labour market""; ""Wage inflation remains above the euro area average""; ""Table 4. Prices, wages and costs""; ""Figure 10. Wage and price developments""; ""Price inflation accelerates""; ""Macroeconomic policy: the framework remains under pressure""

""The macroeconomic framework has been reconfirmed""""Monetary policy is directed towards safeguarding the preconditions for exchange rate stability""; ""The policy framework has evolved""; ""Monetary policy has been tightened in response to inflationary pressures""; ""Figure 11. Interest rate and exchange rate developments""; ""Figure 12. Money and credit""; ""Fiscal policy: neutral stance in 2000 and 2001""; ""Fiscal developments in 2000""; ""Table 5. Budgetary plans and outcomes""; ""Table 6. Public finances""; ""Box 2. Budgetary developments between 1993 and 1999""

""Table 7. Central and local government budget""""The 2001 Budget""; ""Box 3. An additional indicator to improve fiscal transparency""; ""Prospects and policy challenges ahead""; ""Slowdown insufficient to ease labour market tensions""; ""Table 8. Short-term projections""; ""Figure 13. Leading indicators""; ""The risks to the projections are more balanced""; ""Macroeconomic policy in the coming years: substantial challenges lie ahead""; ""II. Structural policy surveillance""; ""Figure 14. Income and consumption per capita""; ""Figure 15. Productivity""

""Box 4. Has the “new economy� affected Norway?""""Downward pressures on labour supply raise labour market tensions""; ""Lower participation due to early retirement,�""; ""Table 9. Unemployment developments""; ""� the rise in sick leave,�""; ""Figure 16. Sickness absence""; ""� the introduction of the childcare cash benefit,�""; ""� and possibly the introduction of the right to study leave""; ""The public sector could fully absorb the future rise in labour supply""; ""Figure 17. Future labour force and public sector labour demand""

""Table 10. Long-term labour market developments""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-64-19215-8

OCLC:

642661407