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23-Sep-2009
Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health, including informal payments, while public health spending relative to GDP is one of the lowest in the OECD.
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23-Sep-2009
Despite progress over the past decades, Greece’s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education.
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22-Jul-2009
This paper provides an overview of the organisation and financing of the National Health Service, reviews its performance, assesses the reforms since the start of the decade and provides recommendations for further development.
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22-Jul-2009
The UK financial market has been severely affected by the recent financial crisis. This paper reviews the supervisory and regulatory framework and the many reforms that have already been adopted to remedy these weaknesses.
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22-Jul-2009
This paper analyses recent large movements in the yield spread for sovereign bonds as between Germany and other Euro Area countries. While the general increase in risk aversion that has characterised the financial crisis is an important factor on its own, it is found that this has also magnified the importance of fiscal performance.
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16-Apr-2009
New Zealand’s living standards remain well below the OECD average, a situation attributable to low productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors.
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16-Apr-2009
Trends in demography, technology and costs will exert mounting and unaffordable pressures on health spending, underlining the need to control health care costs and to put limits on public coverage.
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09-Feb-2009
The adoption of the euro at the start of 2009 marks a major achievement for the Slovak Republic. The main policy challenge is to sustain high trend growth while adjusting to life in the euro area. This requires structural reforms, above all in the areas of labour and product markets, fiscal policy and in the housing sector.
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14-Jan-2009
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has called for a more centralised and integrated supervision of Euro area banks and financial markets to help prevent a recurrence of the financial turmoil which triggered the current recession.
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17-Dec-2008
Korea has been hard-hit by the global financial crisis. In addition, it faces a number of medium-term challenges to sustaining growth, notably tax reform, enhancing service sector productivity and reforming the labour market and education system.
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Economic Survey of Denmark 2009
Economic Survey of Ireland 2009
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