Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to investigate the past trends of the public health care expenditure in Basilicata. The expenditure is standardized to take into account the composition of the population in terms of age. Did Basilicata spend too much compared to the Italian average? The answer...

Data from Stability Programs (European Countries) and from Us Congress Budget Office and Us Bureau of Census are collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care provisions. If the private side of the system is based,...

Il contributo affronta il tema del ricorso alle c.d. clausole di salvaguardia a tutela degli equilibri di finanza pubblica. L’istituto della clausola di salvaguardia è stato introdotto nel nostro ordinamento dall’articolo 17 della nuova legge sulla contabilità pubblica e la finanza...

This paper describes the reasons at the basis of the insufficiency of pay-as-you-go systems to provide resources for financing health care in an ageing society with the low rates of growth that will characterise western industrialised economies during next decades. Intuitive arguments are...

The aim of this work is to provide a tool for the measurement of the health infrastructure endowment based on the assumption of “non-substitutability” of the indicators (a compensation among them is not allowed). The proposed approach, called “Method of Penalties by Coefficient of...

Este trabalho faz um diagnóstico atualizado do sistema tributário brasileiro para subsidiar os debates dos técnicos, das autoridades e dos parlamentares em torno de sua reforma. Isto é feito a partir do levantamento e sistematização de informações sobre a tributação no Brasil. O foco...