The monthly report contains: Prospects for, and obstacles to, a stronger reliance on funding in the statutory system old-age provision in Germany, Recent approaches to involving the private sector in the resolution of international debt crises, Income, saving and capital formation in the nineties: results of the new ESA '95.

The monthly report contains: The economic scene in Germany in autumn 1999, The international and European environment, Financial markets in Germany, Economic conditions in Germany, Foreign trade and payments, Public finance.