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Country

Objectives

Reform initiatives

Problems and Challenges (Examples)

Efficient budget management

Result-oriented budgeting

Reporting objectives, avoiding a

dditional administrative burden

Slovenia

Flexible allocation of funds

Changing of funding of higher education

Monitoring the quality of highe

r education institutes, claim

responsibility of universities to the public

Public Finance Management Reform

Slovakia

Transparent and stable medium term framework

Fiscal decentralising

Cooperation and coordination among de

partments involved, defining

specific formats and reporting met

hodologies, technical constraints,

additional capacity needed during implementation

Efficiency and effectiveness

Restructuring of municipalities and services

Political commitment at all decision-making levels

Finland

Productivity of public sector

Productivity programme

"Independent schools", Custom

er choice system within

elderly care

Exceeding costs due the need of

a certain amount of overcapacity

Sweden

Cost- saving and efficient public services

Reform of fiscal relations

Modern budget management

Comprehensive Spending reviews

Coordination among different leve

ls of government, defining

performance targets, demand for

good-quality, outcome-focused data

UK

Efficient public sector

Efficiency Programme (Gershon review)

Avoiding additional bureaucracy