Italy: 2006 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Italy

February 15, 2007

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Italy: 2006 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Italy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that Italy’s economy is enjoying a broad-based, if comparatively modest, cyclical upswing. Output is estimated to have grown by 1¾ percent in 2006—the strongest pace since the beginning of the decade. Inflation is close to that of the euro area, financial conditions are favorable, unemployment is falling, and the current account deficit is moderate. Some progress has been made on broad-based structural reform. Recent initiatives in labor contracting envision a partial rollback of earlier liberalizing reforms.

Subject: Banking, Budget planning and preparation, Employment, Expenditure, Labor, Pension reform, Pension spending, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Authorities' strategy, Budget planning and preparation, Containment initiative, CR, Debt ratio, Deficit, Employment, Europe, Firm, Firm contestability, Global, Growth projection, ISCR, Liberalization, Liberalization measure, Market share, ODA-to-GNI ratio, Pension reform, Pension spending, Product market, State fund

Publication Details

Pages:

53
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2007/064
Stock No:

1ITAEA2007001
ISBN:

9781451819991
ISSN:

1934-7685

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