This Survey is published on the responsibility of the Economic and Development Review Committee of the OECD, which is charged with the examination of the economic situation of member countries.
The Secretariat’s draft report was prepared for the Committee by Robert Grundke, Zeev Krill, and Marius Bickmann under the supervision of Mame Fatou Diagne. Research inputs from Cesar Barreto, Christoph Boehringer, Dennis Seifert and Donal Smith as well as Cyrille Schwellnus and Antton Haramboure are gratefully acknowledged. Statistical research assistance was provided by Corinne Chanteloup and editorial assistance by Laura Fortin and Emily Derry. Other valuable inputs and comments were received from the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, the Environment Directorate, the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, the Directorate for Public Governance, the Financial Action Task Force, the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, the Trade and Agriculture Directorate and the Statistics and Data Directorate.
The economic situation and policies of the Germany were reviewed by the Economic and Development Review Committee on the 21 February 2023 with participation of representatives of the German authorities. The draft report was then revised in the light of the discussions and given final approval as the agreed report of the whole Committee on 11 April 2023.
The previous Survey of Germany was issued in December 2020. Information about the latest as well as previous Surveys and more information about how Surveys are prepared is available at http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys.