. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several … and active labour market policies can be better geared toward activating the unemployed, while institutional reform of the … labour market performance, underlining the need for a broad based reform approach. This Working Paper relates to the 2006 …

labour market policies; competition policy reform; the liberalisation of product markets, in particular the energy …, telecommunication and transport sectors; policies to foster entrepreneurship; and financial market reform, including the implementation … of a better corporate governance regime. A number of Annexes provide additional information on the reform of the energy …

markets. It attempts to rank countries according with their past reform efforts, using an aggregate reform intensity indicator … little evidence of a link between initial conditions and subsequent reform efforts, with some countries taking only modest … already relatively favourable. Over the past decade, member countries have employed very diverse reform strategies, from …