OECD Economic Surveys.

Table of contents
 Basic statistics of Greece, 2012
 Executive summary
 Assessment and recommendations
 Fostering an economic recovery
 Weak private sector balance sheets and exports dim the outlook
 Figure 1. Key indicators
 Table 1. Macroeconomic indicators and projections
 Figure 2. Price competitiveness and exports
 Fiscal policy will remain tight with limited room for manoeuvre
 Table 2. Official GDP projections and outcomes for Greece
 Figure 3. Fiscal and debt developments
 Table 3. Planned fiscal adjustment for 2013-14
 Public debt sustainability. Figure 4. Official projections of Maastricht debt and nominal GDPFigure 5. Alternative long-term debt sustainability scenarios
 Table 4. Debt sustainability analysis: scenario assumptions and outcomes
 Table 5. Greek government debt decomposition
 Fiscal reforms to strengthen medium-term growth
 Improving tax collection and reducing evasion
 In-depth reform of the public administration
 Figure 6. Government wage expenditure
 Figure 7. International perception of corruption
 Box 1. Recommendations for fiscal policy and government reform
 Easing financial conditions more rapidly. Figure 8. Financial market indicatorsBox 2. Recommendations for financial policy
 Market reforms to foster growth
 Figure 9. Responsiveness to OECD structural reforms recommended in Going for Growth
 Product markets must work better to boost competitiveness and growth
 Figure 10. Labour market
 Figure 11. Overall product market regulation
 Figure 12. Profit margins in selected sectors
 Figure 13. Barriers to starting a business and to trade
 Figure 14. Quality of transport infrastructure
 Box 3. Recommendations to improve the functioning of markets. Fairly sharing the costs and benefits of adjustmentFigure 15. GDP per capita
 Figure 16. Income inequality and relative poverty
 Table 6. Estimated inequality and poverty indices over the period 2009-12
 Table 7. Disaggregating the redistributive effects of austerity and the wider recession
 Figure 17. The impact of consolidation on household income
 Better targeting of the welfare system resources can cushion the recession
 Figure 18. Social welfare benefits (excluding pensions and health) are low
 Figure 19. Jobless households increased. Box 4. Recommendations for a more effective welfare systemEnsuring access to healthcare services, while containing costs
 Box 5. Recommendations for health care services
 Enhancing activation policies
 Figure 20. Job-search monitoring
 Strengthening the role of labour inspection to safeguard social outcomes
 Box 6. Recommendations for labour market policy
 Bibliography
 Annex A.1. Progress in structural reform
 Chapter 1. How to get growth going
 Box 1.1. The Greek adjustment programme in perspective.