There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross … productivity. Both privatisation and entry liberalisation are estimated to have a positive impact on productivity. In manufacturing …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier. …

This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity …) and multi-factor productivity. We focus on the effects of policies aimed at strengthening private governance (e.g. through …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

introduction of incentives towards productivity, management and quality improvements; the possibility for the private sector to …

introduction of incentives towards productivity, management and quality improvements; the possibility for the private sector to … of the ... La réforme du système de santé au Portugal<BR><P>Une réforme ambitieuse a été engagée en 2002 au Portugal …

shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …

, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …

telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of …) both bring about productivity and quality improvements and reduce the prices of all the telecommunications services …