Written by health policy experts, the book gives a comprehensive overview of 8 different national health care systems and focuses in particular on the different approaches to maintain efficiency and to contain overall healthcare costs.

Um den nachfolgenden Generationen ein funktionsfähiges Staatswesen übergeben zu können, ist eine Konsolidierung der öffentlichen Finanzen unumgänglich. Zu diesem Ergebnis kamen die Teilnehmer der Konferenz von Bertelsmann Stiftung, ifo Institut und International Monetary Fund im November...

This volume presents different international approaches to organise public-private-partnerships (PPP) in research and innovation. Besides the German research programme "Forschungscampus", other partnership models from the USA, Korea, China, Australia, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Sweden...

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the fiscal framework of Sweden, and discusses some guidelines for their modification. It describes the Swedish experience under the new fiscal framework, and documents the increasing expenditure profile during the economic boom....