to keep up the sustained growth of productivity. Reforms that enhance competition in product markets are among those that … can potentially bring about significant productivity gains. China has been lowering the burden on start-ups and … capacity and waste of public money. A more level playing field would bring about efficiency-enhancing competition by private …

productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is …

stable and sustainable. The slow progress in modernising the health care system is reflected in the low efficiency of … efficiency enhancing improvements. To help reduce unnecessary use of inpatient services, mechanisms are suggested for …

raise health care spending efficiency. …

discusses its economic performance, both on the grounds of efficiency and market access. Next, a detailed analysis of the …

promote efficiency in the financial sector by upgrading capital markets and improving the range and quality of financial …

of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three different approaches relying on, respectively: i) unit costs for … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …