Current population trends and the COVID-19 pandemic reinforce the need for efficient public service provision while guaranteeing good access to all. Population decline and ageing in rural regions affect the provision of services through lower economies of scale and scope, professional shortages...

The study is part of the OECD work stream Preparing Regions for Demographic Change, a megatrend that affects several important dimensions of public policy. The following three of them are particular relevant for Korea’s regions and rural places: (i) workforce dimension, (ii) social dimension...

This paper proposes a comprehensive framework for projecting public heath and long-term care expenditures. Notably, it considers the impact of demographic and non-demographic effects for both health and long-term care. Compared with other studies, the paper extends the demographic drivers by...

This subset of the financial balance sheet dataset includes data on consolidated financial balance sheet stocks of financial assets and liabilities by institutional sectors where transactions presented by sectors and countries.Data are expressed in millions of national currency at current prices...

This dataset comprises statistics on non-consolidated financial balance sheet stocks of financial assets and liabilities by institutional sectors. Data are expressed in million of national currency at current prices and are available starting from 1950 onwards.