| Description |
1 online resource (68 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs |
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IMF Country Report, 1934-7685 ; Number 15/93 |
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IMF country report ; no. 15/93.
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| Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SPENDING ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION IN HUNGARY; A. INTRODUCTION; B. Stylized Facts: Performance of the Health and Education Sectors; C. Assessing the Efficiency of Public Spending on Health and Education; D. Conclusions and Some Policy Implications; REFERENCES; APPENDICES; I. Data Envelopment Analysis; II. Overview of Recent Reforms in the Health and Education Sectors; III. Robustness Analysis; IV. Overview of Resource Allocation in the Health Sector; FIGURES; 1. Selected OECD Countries Spending on Health and Education |
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2. Selected OECD Countries: Health Outcomes3. Selected OECD Countries: Education Outcomes; 4. Selected OECD Countries: Selected Indicators of the Health Sector; 5. Selected OECD Countries: Selected Indicators of the Education Sector; INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES IN HUNGARY: DETERMINANTS AND THE LINK TO GROWTH; A. Introduction; B. Some Stylized Facts; C. The Link between Internationalization and Growth; TABLES; 1. Selected Indicators by Firm Size, 2006-2013; 2. SMEs: Selected Indicators by Export-to-Revenue Ratio; 3. Correlation Matrix, SMEs and Large Firms |
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4. Estimation Results, Internationalization and Growth, Full SampleD. The Determinants of Firms' Internationalization; 5. Summary Statistics, Firm Level Variables; 6. Correlation Matrix; 7. Estimation Results, Determinates of the SMEs' Internationalization; E. Conclusions and Some Policy Implications; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; I. Supplementary Figures and Tables; MONETARY POLICY SURPRISES AND MARKET REACTION IN HUNGARY-AN EVENT STUDY APPROACH; A. Introduction; B. Methodology; TABLES; 1. Monetary Policy Council Meetings, July 2004-December 2014 |
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2. Policy Change and Market Expectations, July 2004-December 20143. The Unexpected Change in the Policy Rate (in percentage points); C. The Effect of Monetary Policy Surprises; 4. The Effect of Monetary Policy Surprises on Selected Financial Market Indicators; D. Conclusions; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; I. Supplementary Figures and Tables; CREATING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD: GENDER INEQUITIES AND GROWTH IN HUNGARY; A. Introduction; FIGURES; 1. Hungary: Gender Gaps in Education, Business and Politics; B. Women and the Labor Market: Explained and "Unexplained" Factors; 2. Gender Gap in Earnings |
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3. Maternal Employment Rates by Age of Youngest Child, 20074. Hungary: Trends in Female Labor Force Participation, 2000-13; 5. Decomposition of the Change in PLFPR between 2008 and 2013 by Education Level; 6. Hungary: What is Holding Women Back?; 7. The Unexpected Component of the Pay Gap in Hungary is Large; C. Implications for Growth; 8. Parent's Expectations for their Children's Careers; 9. The Effect if Converging Participation Rates between Men and Women on the Size of the Labour Force; D. Conclusion: Towards a More Level Playing Field; REFERENCES |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2015) |
| Subject |
Bank loans -- Hungary
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Bank loans
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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| SUBJECT |
Hungary -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063032
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Hungary -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063038
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| Subject |
Hungary
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781475558388 |
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1475558384 |
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9781484314388 |
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1484314387 |
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1484314557 |
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9781484314555 |
| ISSN |
1934-7685 |
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