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Performance Budgeting in the United Kingdom

29-Jul-2009

This article discusses the United Kingdom framework for performance budgeting and management and its evolution from 1998 onwards, primarily focused on the period 1998-2007. Public service agreements (PSAs) ...

Financial stability in the United Kingdom: Banking on prudence

22-Jul-2009

Philip Davis

This paper reviews the supervisory and regulatory framework and the many reforms that have already been adopted to remedy these weaknesses. It also provides recommendations for further reforms. 

The English national health service: An economic health check

22-Jul-2009

Peter Smith and Maria Goddard

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. 

Better Regulation: Synthesis of the reports on Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal and United Kingdom

15-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Better Regulation in the United Kingdom

10-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 - United Kingdom

06-Jul-2009

The Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009: Maintaining Momentum report presents the results of the second monitoring exercise of the Aid for Trade Initiative and documents its success so far.

Guidance Note - Compliance Management of Large Business Task Group: Experiences and Practices of Eight OECD Countries

03-Jul-2009

Large business taxpayers have different characteristics and tax compliance behaviour and, therefore, present different risks to the revenue. To manage risks effectively, the revenue body needs to develop ...

Keep doors open to migrant workers to meet long-term labour needs, says OECD

30-Jun-2009

The economic crisis is likely to cause the first major fall in the number of migrants coming to work in OECD countries since the 1980s, according to a new OECD report.

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Structural policies to promote sustainable long-term growth

29-Jun-2009

While the immediate imperative is to tackle the financial crisis and to steer the economy through the current downturn, there are also a number of longer-term challenges that need to be addressed to foster ...