, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially … profit de la transition des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (PECO) de l'économie planifiée vers l'économie de marché …

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 …

-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 …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …

recession Estonia’s gap in income and productivity levels compared with the EU average was still around 30% and as the country … closing the productivity gap in the manufacturing-for-export sector compared with other transition countries would serve as a … mondialisation<BR>L'Estonie a déjà tiré grand profit du renforcement de son intégration internationale, et notamment des résultats …

This paper uses a simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to explore the qualitative impact of productivity …

lowering barriers to foreign direct investment in services would also increase competition and enhance productivity growth …

-manufacturing sectors could boost aggregate labour productivity levels by several per cent over the next decade in many OECD countries, and … legislation could also raise productivity growth for a while in many OECD and non-OECD G20 countries, although the effects are …