Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic: Composition and Technical Efficiency

July 1, 2012

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Francesco Grigoli. Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic: Composition and Technical Efficiency, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Education, Education spending, Expenditure, Health care spending, Total expenditures

Keywords: Country, Education spending, EU-OECD average, EU-OECD country, EU-OECD perspective, Europe, Expenditure composition, Global, Government, Health care spending, Health sector, Public spending, Slovak Republic, State material, Technical efficiency, Total expenditures, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2012/173
Stock No:

WPIEA2012173
ISBN:

9781475505214
ISSN:

1018-5941

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