Italy

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Towards better schools and more equal opportunities for learning in Italy

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15-Oct-2009

Romina Boarini

Compulsory school education in Italy produces poor results in terms of 15 year olds’ performance on PISA tests, compared with other OECD countries, despite a relatively high level of expenditure.

Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for Italy

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23-Jun-2009

Italy had the highest public pension spending of OECD countries in 2005: 14% of national income... Legislated changes in Italy that would have increased the pension age and reduced benefits to reflect increased life expectancy have been postponed.

Economic Survey of Italy 2009: The impact of the crisis and the potential for fiscal stimulus

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17-Jun-2009

Italy is suffering a serious economic recession, which started earlier than elsewhere but has now accelerated following the downturn elsewhere and collapse in world trade.

Making federalism work in Italy

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07-Jan-2008

Alexandra Bibbee

Italy has launched itself in the federalist direction by decentralising spending, regulatory and tax powers in the late 1990s and reinforcing growing lower level responsibilities with a constitutional reform in 2001.

Italy: ensuring regulatory quality across levels of government

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08-Nov-2007

This report analyses multi-level governance in Italy and the capacity of regions to produce high quality regulation, an important theme to achieve overall regulatory coherence.

Italy should improve regulatory quality to boost regional growth, says OECD

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08-Nov-2007

Italy should cut red tape, improve the way new rules affecting citizens and business are drafted at a regional level and strengthen co-ordination between the State and the regions. This will boost innovation ...

Ageing and the Public Service: Human Resource Challenges

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13-Aug-2007

An ageing population creates immediate pressures for changes in both service delivery and in human resources management in government. This report reviews strategies to address these pressing issues and  provides a snapshot of ageing policies and actions in nine OECD countries.

Pensions at a Glance 2007: Highlights - Italy

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07-Jun-2007

This document presents the main highlights for Italy from Pensions at a Glance 2007: Italy spends more of its national income on public pensions than all other OECD countries. Also, spending grew at a ...

Economic survey of Italy 2007: Making federalism work

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04-Jun-2007

Italy should re-launch itself in the federalist direction in order to improve the quality of government. To achieve this process, it must get a better match between spending responsibilities and taxing powers, and redesign redistributive mechanisms to improve fiscal effort.

Economic survey of Italy 2007: Achieving fiscal sustainability

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04-Jun-2007

Despite recent improvements, the state of public finances remains difficult. Tax rates and public debt are high compared with other countries, and risks to fiscal sustainability remain. The full implementation of measures to adjust pension benefits and a stronger fiscal consolidation are needed.