growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the …

contributed to the country’s economic resilience during the 2008-09 financial crisis. But many suffer from low productivity …, curbing their role in boosting living standards. There are several ways to spur MSME productivity growth over the medium term …

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 …

permanent contracts has resulted in a rigid dual market with adverse effects on unemployment and productivity. The collective …

problem and the overemphasis on tertiary education. Enhancing educational quality at all levels would promote productivity … gains, including in services. Strengthened competition is also a key to narrow the large productivity gap between services …