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The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its governance and funding structure is highly fragmented and it makes too much use of inpatient care in hospitals. Entry and competition opportunities are de facto limited in most...
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public expenditure growth and improve public administration efficiency to reduce the public “footprint” on the economy and …
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sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport … framework is then used to analyse efficiency in 32 OECD countries. Data issues in terms of availability, quality and … evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for …
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Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
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This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data … among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … 18th to 27th in the OECD for input efficiency as the same outcomes could be reached by scaling back costs by around half …
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-deposit spread suggests that the levels of contestability and efficiency are low. A more in-depth analysis using stochastic frontier … and data envelopment analyses confirm that the efficiency of the Colombian commercial banking system is low compared to … potential determinants of efficiency and contestability for a sample of the 24 countries over the period 2004 – 2013. This …
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existing infrastructure stock. A third approach aims at benchmarking the social efficiency of infrastructure service provision …
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raise health care spending efficiency.<P>Systèmes de santé : efficacité et institutions<BR>Ce document présente un ensemble …
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Women have contributed a great deal to Ireland's economic growth, including by joining the labour force in large numbers. The rise in female participation since 1990 has been amongst the strongest in the OECD, but from a low base. Female participation rates remain below the OECD average for all...
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This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …
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