Making Reform Happen [electronic resource] : Lessons from OECD Countries
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2010.
OECD countries have made significant reform progress in recent decades, in fields as diverse as competition policy, health care and the environment. How have they done it? And why have reforms advanced in some places and stalled in others? This collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future. While taking full account of the tremendous differences in the political and institutional settings in which these reforms were undertaken, the 
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Foreword; Table of contents; Executive summary; Chapter 1 Reform beyond the crisis; Chapter 2 Opening markets to competition; Chapter 3 Advancing pension and labour-market reforms; Chapter 4 Making fundamental tax reform happen; Chapter 5 Making reform happen in environmental policy; Chapter 6 Making reform happen in education; Chapter 7 Effective ways to realise policy reforms in health systems; Chapter 8 Modernising government; Chapter 9 Enabling regulatory reform; Chapter 10 Achieving and sustaining fiscal consolidation
OECD countries have made significant reform progress in recent decades, in fields as diverse as competition policy, health care and the environment. How have they done it? And why have reforms advanced in some places and stalled in others? This collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future. While taking full account of the tremendous differences in the political and institutional settings in which these reforms were undertaken, the 
OECD countries -- Economic conditions.
OECD countries -- Economic policy.
OECD countries -- Social conditions.
OECD countries -- Social policy.