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• General political framework and objectives

• The economic context

  • Introduction

  • Short-term outlook for the Belgian economy

  • Medium-term forecasts (2009-2011) 

• The overall budget balance and the public debt

  • The overall budget balance 

  • Debt developments

  • The cyclically adjusted balance

• Comparison with the stability programme for 2007-2010 and sensitivity analysis

  • Comparison with the stability programme for 2007-2010 

  • Sensitivity analysis

• The quality of public finances

  • Introduction

  • Stimulating supply and demand on the labour market   

  • Making work more attractive and raising labour supply 

  • Increasing demand for labour 

  • Competitiveness and the business environment

  • A strengthened social protection system

  • Social security with a balanced budget

  • Boosting social benefits

  • Efforts aimed at priority policy areas 

• Long-term sustainability of public finances

  • Introduction

  • The budgetary consequences of population ageing 

  • A single strategy, three main policy lines 

• Institutional aspects of Belgian budgetary policy

  • Coordination of fiscal policy 

  • New steps in the State reform

• Annexes

  • Main assumptions used for the medium-term forecasts  

  • The basic assumptions of the Study Committee on Ageing