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ESTONIA - Public sector spending efficiency: healthcare and local government

21-Jul-2011

Zuzana Smidova

The Estonian fiscal position is much better than in many OECD countries, the country stands out for having a rather lean government sector and the authorities are striving for efficient use of existing resources.

Estonia: making the most of globalisation

24-Jun-2011

Robert Price and Andreas Wörgötter

Estonia has already experienced many benefits of increasing international integration, most obviously in significant convergence.

Estonia and euro adoption: Small country challenges of joining EMU - Annex supplement

15-Oct-2009

Zuzana Brixiova, Margaret H. Morgan and Andreas Wörgötter

Data and supplementary tables from Economics Department working paper on Estonia and euro adoption: Small country challenges of joining EMU.

Estonia and euro adoption: Small country challenges of joining EMU

15-Oct-2009

Zuzana Brixiova, Margaret H. Morgan and Andreas Wörgötter

The ongoing financial crisis has put euro adoption at the top of Estonia's policy agenda. However, shocks affecting Estonia are only weakly synchronized with those of the euro area, and the structure of its economy also notably differs from the euro zone.

Capital inflows, household debt and the boom bust cycle in Estonia

28-May-2009

Zuzana Brixiova, Laura Vartia and Andreas Wörgötter

Estonia is now in a severe recession. To restore high and sustainable growth, the country will need to rebalance its resources from non-tradables towards exports.

Report on non-OECD Countries’ Spam Legislation (STI Digital Economy Paper 81)

27-May-2004

Petr Piškula and Jana Klaschková

This report on anti-spam legislation in OECD non-member countries was originally prepared for the Brussels OECD Workshop on Spam and was updated following the workshop to include more non-member country information in April 2004.

Float in Order to Fix? Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries (DEV Centre Working Paper 218)

26-Nov-2003

Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen

This working paper sets out lessons from emerging markets for EU assession countries.