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Lessons from Australian and British Reforms in Results oriented Financial Management

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11-Aug-2009

Reform of government financial management systems in the past decade has seen developments in accrual accounting and in results-based budgeting and reporting. Australia has worked with an accrual-based ...

Performance Budgeting in Australia

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29-Jul-2009

This article describes how the principles of management for results have worked in practice over the past two decades in Australia. The current performance information framework involves, among other things, ...

Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for Australia

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23-Jun-2009

Australia’s superannuation funds have been heavily hit by the financial crisis, with real losses of 26.7% in 2008.... More than one in four Australian seniors live in poverty on international measures. The OECD welcomes the government’s increase in the age pension to address this problem...

Asian countries should reform their pension systems, says OECD

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07-Jan-2009

Many Asian countries will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.

Senior budget official country reviews of budgeting systems

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09-Dec-2008

The objective of senior budget official country reviews is to provide a comprehensive overview of the budget process in the country under examination, to evaluate national experiences in the light of international best practice and to provide specific policy recommendations.

Performance Budgeting in OECD Countries

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12-Nov-2007

Teresa Curristine

This book reviews the experiences of eight OECD countries which have developed and used performance information in the budget process over the past ten years. The book offers guidelines and recommendations on adapting budget systems to promote the use of performance information.

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

Fiscal relations across levels of government in Australia

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31-Jan-2007

Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou

This paper discusses areas of fiscal relations across levels of government that warrant further reform efforts. Clarifying government roles and responsibilities is likely to have a significant potential for improving public sector efficiency. Economics Department Working Paper 541.

Should measures of fiscal stance be adjusted for terms of trade effects?

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16-Oct-2006

David Turner

This paper considers the case for adjusting measures of the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance for exceptional movements in the terms of trade for countries where production of commodities is a substantial share of output. Economics Department Working Paper 519.

Economic Survey of Australia 2006: Improving incentives to work

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31-Jul-2006

To sustain vigorous growth in the face of ageing a major challenge is to increase participation, especially for women with families, lone parents, disability benefit recipients and older workers over 55.