01986cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004887 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451866957 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mattina, Todd. Budget Rigidity and Expenditure Efficiency in Slovenia / Todd Mattina, Victoria Gunnarsson. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper assesses the relative efficiency and flexibility of public spending in Slovenia compared to the advanced and new EU member states. Spending on health care, education, and social protection is relatively high in Slovenia without achieving correspondingly better outcomes. Inefficiencies appear to stem from the financing mechanisms for social services, institutional arrangements, and the weak targeting of social benefits. In addition, the composition of spending appears to be strongly tilted towards nondiscretionary items that reduce the fiscal room for maneuver. Greater flexibility is needed to facilitate the reallocation of relatively inefficient expenditure into higher priorities. In this manner, medium-term expenditure rationalization can focus on reducing inefficient outlays rather than restraining traditionally flexible components of the budget, such as public investment. Mode of access: Internet Gunnarsson, Victoria. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/131 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2007/131/001.2007.issue-131-en.xml IMF e-Library