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 …

the OECD and some of its Latin American emerging market peers. Health insurance coverage is incomplete, especially for low …-income families, and access to health services is highly uneven. There are several separate vertically integrated insurance networks … education reforms have started to address these issues, but more needs to be done to increase the efficiency of spending by …

to inequities in access to certain medical services. Also, there is a weakening of efficiency of the system, which should …

– which give remarkably consistent results. The empirical estimates suggest that potential efficiency gains might be large …

health insurance to a broader variety of pathologies under AUGE; and iii) continue to tackle the shortage of housing, while …

This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to … insurance sector. Despite incomplete information on some areas that turned out to be important in the context of the recent …-oriented regulatory policies and competition in banking and insurance.<P>Régulation prudentielle et concurrence sur les marchés financiers …

problems, the government has launched a number of reforms. New insurance schemes have been rolled out both in rural and urban …