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Reforming the Slovak Public Sector

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  • Lilas Demmou

    (OECD)

  • Robert Price

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Improving public sector efficiency can help to meet two conflicting objectives: ensuring fiscal consolidation and maintaining room for growth-friendly spending. However, the public sector lags on the application of e-government and e-procurement, insufficiently prioritizes spending, and suffers from budget fragmentation, lack of coordination between ministries and perceived corruption. The regulatory framework could also be more business friendly and the judicial system more efficient. Boosting public sector efficiency requires broad based reforms. Sequencing will be important for the effectiveness of this comprehensive reform effort, and therefore the government should put an initial emphasis on human resource management and the improvement of administrative capacity. Réformer le secteur public en Slovaquie Une amélioration de l'efficience du secteur public peut contribuer à la réalisation de deux objectifs contradictoires : assainir les finances publiques et conserver des marges de manoeuvre pour engager des dépenses propices à la croissance. Néanmoins, le secteur public a pris du retard concernant les outils d'administration électronique et les marchés publics dématérialisés. Il ne hiérarchise pas suffisamment ses priorités en matière de dépenses, et pâtit de la fragmentation du budget, du manque de coordination entre ministères et de l'image de corruption qu'il renvoie. Le cadre réglementaire pourrait en outre être plus favorable aux entreprises et le système judiciaire plus efficace. Le renforcement de l'efficience du secteur public passe par des réformes de grande ampleur. Le calendrier de ces réformes d'envergure est un élément important de leur efficacité, de sorte que le gouvernement devrait mettre l'accent au départ sur la réforme de la gestion des ressources humaines et l'amélioration des capacités administratives.

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  • Lilas Demmou & Robert Price, 2015. "Reforming the Slovak Public Sector," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1212, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1212-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js1pzrvxmkg-en
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    Keywords

    administrative burdens; cadre fiscal; charge administrative; fiscal frameworks; gestion des ressources humaines; judicial system; public sector; regulation des services; secteur public; système judiciaire; écart de TVA;
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    JEL classification:

    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy

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