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Overview: Reforms for Stability and Sustainable Growth

Fiscal Policy: Deficit Reduction and Making Taxes and Expenditure More Growth Friendly

Healthcare Reform: Improving Efficiency and Quality of Care

Pension Reform: Providing Old-Age Income Security in the Face of Population Ageing

Employment and Social Policies: Making Formal Employment More Attractive

Education Reform: Improving Human Capital Formation

SME Promotion: Increasing Competitiveness and Fostering Successful Entrepreneurship

Innovation: Fostering Rapid Productivity Growth

Energy Policy and the Environment: Responding to the Threat of Climate Change

Public Administration Reform: Improving the Performance of the Public Sector

E-government: Using Technical Progress to Improve Public Service Delivery

Public Administration Reform: Improving the Performance of the Public Sector

Content Provider	OECD iLibrary
Organization	OECD
Abstract	Hungary’s policy agenda to bolster sustainable growth in the context of fiscal consolidation calls for more efficient public administration. Sustainable growth involves improvements in income levels and public service delivery. Higher income levels result from exploiting national resources via a coherent policy mix. Ensuring equitable access to higher quality public services requires appropriate mechanisms of collaboration among public authorities, both vertically and horizontally. Public administration in Hungary faces a series of challenges. Besides a low level of trust in government and a lack of strategic focus, structural weaknesses exist in local and regional governance. At the lower level, the large number of small local governments with a wide range of responsibilities but limited financial resources often makes it difficult to reap economies of scale and to ensure coherence in policy implementation. At the intermediate level, the coexistence of elected and non-elected entities with overlapping responsibilities generates confusion. Following the initial move towards institutional reform and decentralisation during the 1990s, Hungarian public administration is currently going through a renewed process of modernisation. Efforts are being launched to achieve more efficient public service delivery and to rationalise the budget. This chapter provides an overview of key challenges, ongoing policy reforms, and suggestions for further improvement in public administration. In particular, it recommends promoting voluntary collaboration between local governments, investing in local capacity building, fostering territorial development strategies, and adopting performance-oriented budgeting practices.
Page Count	18
Starting Page	205
Ending Page	221
Language	English
Publisher	OECD Publishing
Publisher Date	2008-04-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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