01821cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011967 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475505214 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Grigoli, Francesco. Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic : Composition and Technical Efficiency / Francesco Grigoli. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (34 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 Good practice suggests that budget allocations should reflect spending priorities and that spending should provide cost-effective delivery of public goods and services. This paper analyzes the composition of public expenditure in the Slovak Republic. It also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social benefits and less on wages compared to the EU and OECD average. While it manages to translate the low expenditures into outcomes in an efficient manner in the education sector, this is not true for health. Moreover, the recent increases in expenditure levels have not improved outcomes, suggesting that significant budgetary savings could be achieved through increases in efficiency. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/173 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/173/001.2012.issue-173-en.xml IMF e-Library