widely acknowledged as providing a basket of universal services, with good quality primary and secondary care, while also …. Although the quality of care is generally good, in hospital care there is room to improve data and concern that overcrowding …

The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care … competition. Despite major changes and some positive effects, the reforms run the risk of getting stuck in the middle between a … centralised system of state-controlled supply and prices and a decentralised system based on regulated competition, providing …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

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 … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and reforms may have played in the performance of the Dutch …. Competition in product markets has been strengthened through the creation of a competition authority (NMa) and the Competition …, Deregulation and Legislative Quality project (MDW). A planned reduction in the administrative burden will also help to strengthen …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …