This report presents the results of an 18-month-long research project commissioned by the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion to explore drivers and barriers to effective and efficient reforms aiming to improve the coordination between employment services and social ...
On 1 March 2017, the European Commission published its White Paper on the future of Europe as the starting point for an honest and wide-ranging debate on tomorrow’s Europe. To further contribute to this debate, the Commission is presenting a number of reflection papers on key topics that will sh...
The reform of China's "hukou system" seems to be gathering momentum. The hukou system is a household-registration system, which splits the population into urban and rural residents. It basically gives rural hukou holders access to land while granting social entitlements to urban hukou holders. M...
This report represents the final deliverable of the Mid-term evaluation of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP). The overall objective of this evaluation is three-fold: To provide an independent assessment of the SRSP, including information on the achievement of the general objective o...
The European Commission recognises the important role public administration has to play in facilitating the recovery and growth of the European economy. An efficient, high quality public administration helps to promote business growth and competitiveness. Modernising public administration has be...
The current paper is prepared in the framework of the European Commission project “Support for developing better country knowledge on public administration and institutional capacity building” (hereafter EUPACK – EUropean Public Administration Country Knowledge). The project aims to ensure consi...
The 2018 edition of the triennial Pension Adequacy Report, published in two volumes, analyses how current and future pensions help prevent old-age poverty and maintain the income of men and women for the duration of their retirement. Volume I is devoted to comparative analysis of pension adequac...
A well-functioning procurement system is important for all European Union Member States both for their own budgetary efficiency, and in the context of their management and control of European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds. However, procurement has been identified as a major source of def...
