Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic : : Composition and Technical Efficiency / / Francesco Grigoli

• Autore: Grigoli Francesco
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (35 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Government spending policy - Slovakia; Public Finance; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; National Government Expenditures and Health; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies; Social Security and Public Pensions; Education: General; National Government Expenditures and Education; Public finance & taxation; Education; Expenditure; Health care spending; Total expenditures; Education spending; Expenditures, Public
• Soggetto geografico: Slovakia Appropriations and expenditures; Slovak Republic
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Literature Review: An EU-OECD Perspective; III. Features of the Slovak Republic's Public Expenditure; Figures; 1. Government Size across EU-OECD Countries; 2. Slovak Government Size; 3. Public Spending During the Crisis; A. Public Expenditure Composition; 4. Expenditure Composition, 2009; 5. Expenditure Composition in Real Terms; 6. Expenditure Categories; B. Spending Agencies; Tables; 1. Uncommitted Expenditures; 2. Public Expenditure by Agency, 2009; IV. Technical Efficiency; A. Education; 7. Education Expenditure across EU-OECD countries ; 8. Education Expenditure3. Selected Indicators of the Education System; 9. Efficiency of Education Expenditure; B. Health; 10. Health Expenditure across EU-OECD countries; 11. Health Expenditure; 4. Selected Indicators of the Health System; 12. Efficiency of Health Expenditure-Life Expectancy; 13. Efficiency of Health Expenditure-Infant Mortality; V. Concluding Remarks; Appendices; 1. The DEA Approach; Appendix Figures; 1. DEA Production Possibility Frontier; References
• Sommario/riassunto: Good practice suggests that budget allocations should reflect spending priorities and that spending should provide cost-effective delivery of public goods and services. This paper analyzes the composition of public expenditure in the Slovak Republic. It also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social benefits and less on wages compared to the EU and OECD average. While it manages to translate the low expenditures into outcomes in an efficient manner in the education sector, this is not true for health. Moreover, the recent increases in expenditure levels have not improved outcomes, suggesting that significant budgetary savings could be achieved through increases in efficiency.
• Titolo autorizzato: Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic
• ISBN: 1-4755-8187-4; 1-4755-3923-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786483903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/173