Hungary: Selected Issues

April 3, 2015

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Hungary: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses the efficiency of public spending on health and education in Hungary, with a view to identifying potential efficiency gains and areas for reforms so as to lock in such gains. The paper finds potentially large room for efficiency gains over the medium term, particularly in the health sector. A frontier analysis using data envelopment methodology, suggests that savings from efficiency gains in the health and education sectors could amount up to about 3 percentage points of GDP over the medium term, of which 90 percent could be achieved from efficiency gains in the health sector.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Education, Expenditure, Financial services, Gender, Health, Health care spending, Women

Keywords: Central bank policy rate, CR, Data envelopment analysis, Eastern Europe, Estimation result, Europe, Export ratio, Firm, Global, Health care spending, Health outcome, ISCR, Market expectation, Monetary policy, Monetary policy surprise, OECD country, OECD education Database, OECD health statistics Database, Rate, Women

Publication Details

Pages:

67
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/093
Stock No:

1HUNEA2015002
ISBN:

9781484314555
ISSN:

1934-7685

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