This report presents detailed results on the quality of regulatory management systems, following the survey conducted in 2005-6. The goal of this report is to compare regulatory quality assurance systems; to measure progress and understand trends over time across countries, and to identify...

This Working Paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the contributions and limits of composite indicators of regulatory management systems. The second section provides an overview of regulatory management systems, including regulatory policies, institutions, processes and...

Nanotechnology is commonly considered to offer considerable promise extending from business opportunities throughout various industries to broader socio-economic benefits, especially in the context of pressing global challenges such as those related to energy, health care, clean water and...

[eng] The Induced Demand Hypothesis: an Economic Assessment by Lise Rochaix and Stéphane Jacobzone . In health economics the induced demand hypothesis is bringing about a transformation in the way health-care demand is perceived. It posits that health-care demand does not simply reflect choice...

[eng] Putting the Links between Minimum Income Support and Unemployment into Perspective . by Stéphane Jacobzone . The introduction of minimum income support in 1989 was accompanied by an increase in unemployment among unskilled The subsequent introduction of the single digressive unemployment...

[fre] Systèmes mixtes d'assurance maladie, équité, gestion du risque et maîtrise des coûts . par Stéphane Jacobzone . Cet article étudie le caractère mixte des systèmes d'assurance maladie, en recensant notamment les divers arguments plaidant en faveur de l'intervention publique. Ceci...

[spa] El papel de los precios en la regulaciôn del sector farmaceutico. Pesé a su carâcter compétitive el sector del medicamento ofrece rasgos de utilidad pûblica. . A nivel econômico, las tutelas desempenan el doble papel de comprador de productos, a través de los reembolsos del seguro...

[eng] Social Security and Redistributive Policies in the EMU Context . The introduction of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will affect the social security systems in the European Community countries. These systems are more developed where income is higher. They tend to be similar in some...

[fre] Les politiques de santé face aux propriétés incitatives et redistributives des systèmes d'assurance maladie . Les systèmes de santé visent à la couverture d'un risque, le risque maladie. Ceci leur confère une indiscutable dimension assurantielle, et justifie qu'on examine leur...

This Working Paper presents preliminary analytical estimates using the 1998 and 2005 surveys of indicators of systems for the management of regulatory quality. Two broad dimensions are found in regulatory management systems using Factor Analysis, and Principal Component Analysis. The first...