Budget:

revenues: $3.378 billion

expenditures: $3.77 billion (2008 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

4.3% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 72 1.3% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

3% (31 December 2008)

note: this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

5.89% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 130 6.24% (31 December 2007)