OECD Economic Surveys: Italy
- Frequency :
- Every 18 months
- ISSN :
- 1999-0340 (online)
- ISSN :
- 1995-3283 (print)
- DOI :
- 10.1787/19990340
OECD’s periodic surveys of the Italian economy. Each edition surveys the major challenges faced by the country, evaluates the short-term outlook, and makes specific policy recommendations. Special chapters take a more detailed look at specific challenges. Extensive statistical information is included in charts and graphs.
OECD Economic Surveys: Italy 1993
- Publication Date :
- 01 Jan 1992
- Pages :
- 154
- ISBN :
- 9789264164741 (PDF) ; 9789264137837 (print)
- DOI :
- 10.1787/eco_surveys-ita-1993-en
OECD's annual review of the Italian economy. The survey opens with a review of developments that preceded the recent exchange rate crisis, and discusses the post-devaluation outlook in the light of new budget consolidation and price stabilization measures. Monetary developments are reviewed in Part II. Part III covers fiscal convergence and structural improvement, and Part IV looks at the health care system.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Recent developments and prospects
-Subdued output growth
-The deepening of labour market slack
-Small and uneven progress in lowering inflation
-The worsening of the external position
-The outlook to 1994
II. Stabilisation Policies
-Monetary policy
-Interest and exchange-rate developments
-Money supply and credit developments
-Fiscal policy
-Budget policy and out-turn for 1991
-Budget policy for 1992
-Deviating from budgetary targets
III. Striving for Fiscal Convergence and Structural Improvements
-Lack of convergence
-Missed opportunities of fiscal stabilisation
-Lack of expenditure restraint
-An ineffective tax system
-The 1991 and 1992 convergence programmes
-Structural reform
IV. The Italian Health Care System
-Introduction
-Main features of the health care system
-The origin of the health care system
-The present organisation of the health care system
-Private health care
-A badly managed health care system
-The difficulties arising from the organisation of the system
-Public health spending apparently less dynamic than private health spending
-Measures to curb supply
-Controls on the prices of pharmaceuticals
-The difficulty of controlling demand
-The inadequate quality of public health care
-The lack of motivation among public health care personnel
-The need for reform
-Recent and proposed changes
-Assessment of the proposed reform
V. Conclusions
Notes and references
Annexes:
-I. Supporting statistical material to Part IV
-II. Chronology of main economic events
Statistical and Structural annex