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The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
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to become more effective, in particular in the areas of health care, education and social assistance. On the revenue side …
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Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is variable, weakening Italy’s resilience to...
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sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport … evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for …
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families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …
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. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on some dimensions of social welfare, such as pollution. The second … existing infrastructure stock. A third approach aims at benchmarking the social efficiency of infrastructure service provision … aspects du bien-être social, la pollution par exemple. Le deuxième repose sur des analyses coûts-avantages des projets d …
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efficient spending in energy, water, transport and communication sectors go well beyond their contribution to capital …
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Productivity growth has been falling for a decade, hindering improvements in living standards. Low productivity reflects, firstly, poor infrastructure in telecommunications and transport. Secondly, the regulatory environment is not always business-friendly and often raises obstacles to firm...
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Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
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, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this …, throughout the industry has often been perceived as an obstacle to its development. Private investment in water and sanitation is …
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