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)