OECD's review of regulatory reform in Poland.

OECD's comprehensive review of regulatory reform in Turkey. It finds that Turkey is a comparative latecomer to regulatory reform. Yet, there is a crucial need for it. The Turkish economy has suffered from macro-economic instability and chronic inflation, in part because of weak governance.

This report proposes a practical, country-based framework for developing good governance indicators for programmes funded by the European Union.

In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.

This book brings together a wide range of policy experts from both old and new European Union member states, as well as from the US, and presents their insights, observations and research on the future of economic and social models in Europe. This book is an essential companion for all interested in this key issue.

This report reviews Poland's administration simplification programme with the aim of helping Poland to make the programme and its implementation more efficient.

This report explores the various challenges and opportunities for Polish regional development policy, and provides recommendations to best design and implement the policy mix, looking in particular at governance challenges.