OECD Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen - Opening Remarks

A persistent failure to realise the potential for better water management in the face of growing pressures (population growth, urbanisation, economic development, pollution, mismanagement, floods and droughts) attests to the need for water reform in many parts of the world, said M. Gurría.

Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach

Water is essentially a local issue and involves a plethora of stakeholders at basin, municipal, regional, national and international levels. This report looks at the challenges in water policy implementation and identifies good practices in co-ordinating water policy.

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Austria: public sector inefficiencies have become less affordable

Performance of fiscal policy, while good in international comparison, is not sufficient to prepare for future ageing-related spending increases.

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Workshop on Enhancing Regulatory Quality, Hanoi, 14 October 2011

This workshop called on international experts to share experiences and good practices on the framework for regulatory management, on improving productivity in product and labor markets, and on the regulation of infrastructure and public services.

m-Government

This report aims to foster a better understanding on how to leverage the economic and social impacts of the implementation of the Internet into mobile devices to enable ubiquitous governments, sustain public sector innovation and transform public service delivery.

A question of trust

How can you be sure the toy you buy your child as a birthday present is safe? That your money is safe in the bank? That the tax you pay is not going to waste? The answer is essentially trust – but what happens when that trust breaks down, and how can you rebuild it?

Hacia una gestión pública - más efectiva y dinámica en México: Resumen

This is the synthesis in Spannish of the public governance review of Mexico which examines the regulatory framework in Mexico, explains how e-government could be used to find new approaches to old challenges, and looks at the challenge of professionalising public servants in Mexico.

Reforming Austria’s highly regarded but costly health system

The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly.

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