to keep up the sustained growth of productivity. Reforms that enhance competition in product markets are among those that … can potentially bring about significant productivity gains. China has been lowering the burden on start-ups and … capacity and waste of public money. A more level playing field would bring about efficiency-enhancing competition by private …

public expenditure growth and improve public administration efficiency to reduce the public “footprint” on the economy and …

sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport … framework is then used to analyse efficiency in 32 OECD countries. Data issues in terms of availability, quality and … evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for …

This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data … among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … 18th to 27th in the OECD for input efficiency as the same outcomes could be reached by scaling back costs by around half …

-deposit spread suggests that the levels of contestability and efficiency are low. A more in-depth analysis using stochastic frontier … and data envelopment analyses confirm that the efficiency of the Colombian commercial banking system is low compared to … potential determinants of efficiency and contestability for a sample of the 24 countries over the period 2004 – 2013. This …