, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost-efficient manner … to make sure that it yields commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile’s health indicators show that it fares … teaching and management; ii) improve risk sharing among private and public health insurers, while increasing the coverage of …

This paper reviews the performance of French health care system from an economic viewpoint. It also provides some …, however, this high quality comes at a price: health expenditure in relation to GDP is among the highest in the OECD and risks … policy recommendations. The health system in France is regarded as delivering high quality services, with freedom of choice …

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …

This paper reviews the performance of Polish health care system from an economic perspective. High on the reform agenda … of the government for several years, a new national health insurance system entered into force on 1 January 1999. This … further improvement of the system, including ways of enforcing harder budget constraints on health funds and better defining …

the cost of climate change mitigation policies in OECD and non-OECD countries and can offer economic incentives for …

The longer run consequences of the pandemic will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and the ongoing … process of labour reallocation from low to high productivity firms. While Schumpeter (1939) proposed that recessions can … reallocation) raises questions about whether job reallocation remained productivity-enhancing. Using novel, near-real-time data for …

The consequences of the pandemic for potential output will partly hinge on its impact on high productivity firms, and … more generally the ongoing process of productivity-enhancing reallocation – the rate at which scarce resources are … preservation (over reallocation) raises questions about whether job reallocation remained productivity-enhancing over the course of …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … particular reform to education policy on human capital and productivity. …

innovation. Spain has done well in reducing the carbon emissions intensity of GDP growth but will need to do more to meet future …