The Quality of Public Expenditures in the EU (original) (raw)
This report follows up on the demand formulated within the "Compact for Growth and Jobs" decided by the Heads of State or Government on 28-29 June 2012. The mandate required to assess and to review the scope for possible action to enhance the quality of public expenditures in the EU within the boundaries of the EU and national fiscal frameworks. This report (i) reviews trends in public expenditure in the EU with special attention to the impact of the economic and financial crisis and the subsequent fiscal adjustment, (ii) briefly discusses the different notions and indicators of expenditure efficiency, with a special focus on health care and on public administration reform, including performance-based budgeting (PBB), (iii) reviews the scope for possible actions within the boundaries of the EU budgetary frameworks to prioritise reforms towards more growth-friendly and efficient expenditures and (iv) spells out a possible way forward in the context of the European Semester.
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