OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in Denmark 2000
OECD's 2000 review of regulatory reform in Denmark. It finds that Denmark’s large welfare state and its open market economy have successfully delivered relatively high standards of living. Danish regulatory reform has proceeded with many pragmatic steps that have contributed to solid economic p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2000.
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| Colección: | OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705711006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""Part I. OECD Review of regulatory Reform in Denmark""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Chapter 1. Regulatory Reform in Denmark""; ""Introduction""; ""Regulatory reform has aimed to curb the steady expansion of the state and to promote market competitiveness.""; ""The “co-operative democracy� has historically been based on consensus-building between the state and interest groups�""; ""� and co-operation has sometimes resulted in corporatist relations between the state and the market, with both benefits and costs�""
- ""� yet the Danish system demonstrates a growing adaptability that is valuable in reducing the costs of policy rigidities.""""Informality has been another hallmark of the Danish regulatory system.""; ""Box 1.1. What is regulation and regulatory reform?""; ""The Macroeconomic Context for Regulatory Reform""; ""Denmark is a small, open, social market economy with one of the largest government sectors in the OECD.""; ""Expansion of the welfare state brought problems as well as benefits.""
- ""In 1993, the government introduced important labour market, fiscal and regulatory reforms, which have continued.""""Structural reforms have contributed to very strong growth and employment performance since 1993.""; ""Despite good performance, structural problems remain. Supply-side reforms can help sustain good economic performance.""; ""Figure 1.1. Overall regulatory approaches""; ""Lack of competition has contributed to high price levels and poor productivity performance.""; ""Figure 1.2. Comparative price performance in manufacturing and service industries""
- ""Figure 1.3. X-efficiency in telecommunications""""Denmark will face new challenges to sustain economic growth and its generous social welfare system...""; ""Box 1.2. The need for reform of public sector services: growing demand for services and climbing taxes""; ""Reforms to the Danish state began in the 1970s with improvements to public services and other structural reforms...""; ""Reforms have been initiated in several infrastructure sectors, but implementation has just begun.""; ""Box 1.3. Improving efficiency and service quality in the Danish public sector""
- ""Outsourcing of operational services by the public sector as part of a larger programme to improve public sector performance..""""Table 1.1. Extent of contracting our in Denmark""; ""Box 1.4. Contracting out in Denmark""; ""Table 1.2. Reform of sectoral economic regulations in Denmark (by mid1999)""; ""Table 1.3. Regulatory reform in selected service sectors""; ""Economic Impacts of Sectoral Regulatory Reform""; ""Except in telecommunications, introduction of competition is too recent or partial to have had much impact...""; ""Box 1.5. Economic analysis of regulatory reform in Denmark""
- ""Changes in productivity performance vary with the degree of competition.""
