United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Open Society Fund, Embassy of the Netherlands
Year: 2006
This report presents a comprehensive assessment of key macroeconomic and statistical aggregates in Serbia, the essential economic information that can be derived from it with reasonable certainty, and a reassessment of GDP levels and expenditure structures. The assessment covers prices, exchange rates, production, as well as all publicly available fiscal, monetary, and foreign trade data, documents the data and presents it in analytically useful formats, documents the collection methodologies and notes key weaknesses therein, points out inconsistencies between series, providing an estimate, wherever possible, of the real dimensions of the aggregates. It offers an alternative dataset for GDP levels and expenditure structures in 2003 and 2004. The purpose of Report II is to analyze the value added of enterprises in Serbia, and its behavior depending on ownership, size, and activity, and then to assess the impact of ownership structure and its changes on economic growth, productivity, employment, and labor costs.
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