This report was prepared by the OECD’s Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director and Jon Blondal, Head of the Public Management and Budgeting Division.
The report was written under the overall supervision of Stéphane Jacobzone, Senior Advisor. The synthesis chapter was co-authored by Laurence Dynes and Stéphane Jacobzone, with comments from Titouan Chassagne. The chapters on Canada, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden were authored by Laurence Dynes. The chapters on France and Ireland were authored by Titouan Chassagne. The chapter on Korea was drafted by Jeonghwan Kim of the Korean Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), with additions and comments by Jihyun Kim. The authors are grateful to Gillian Dorner, Acting Deputy Director, Jon Blondal, Head of the Public Management and Budgeting Division and Boris Cournède, Acting Head of the Public Economics Division in the Economics Department, for providing feedback on the synthesis chapter, to Andrew Blazey, Deputy Head of the Public Management and Budgeting Division, for providing feedback on the chapter on New Zealand and the synthesis chapter, and to Scherie Nicol, Senior Policy Analyst in the Public Management and Budgeting Division for providing feedback on the Canada and Ireland chapters. The authors are also grateful to Carlo Fioro, Professor of Public Economics at the University of Milan for productive exchanges and for participation in the expert meeting. The report was prepared for publication with support from Meral Gedik.
The OECD Secretariat wishes to express its gratitude and acknowledge all the institutions and individuals who have contributed to this report. In addition, we thank representatives from Ministries of Finance and related government departments and research institutions in Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Netherlands and Sweden for making themselves available for interviews and providing comments:
Canada – Jasmin Thomas and Trinish Padayachee (Department of Finance).
France – Samuel Menard, Jean-François Tesson and Chloé Mas (DG Trésor, Ministry of Finance).
Ireland – Joanne Mulholland, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Hannah Cousins (Department of Finance), Paul Norris (Department of Social Protection), Cathal McDermott, Fiachra Kennedy and Caroline O'Loughlin (Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform), Karina Doorley (Economic and Social Research Institute).
Italy – Chiara Subrizi, Maria Teresa Monteduro, Elena Miola (Department of Finance), Alessandra de Lellis, Ottavio Ricchi, Susan Battles (Treasury), Valentina Ferri (National Institute for Public Policy Analysis), Alessandro Tinto and Cristina Freguja (ISTAT), Riccardo Conti (Sogei).
Korea – Jeonghwan Kim and Hyun-A Kim (Korea Institute of Public Finance).
Netherlands – Jesse Hoekstra (Ministry of Finance), René Schulenberg (Central Planning Bureau), Joyce Van der Staaj and M Gielen (Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment).
New Zealand – Chelsey Reid, Dominic Prendergast, Tim Hughes, Diana Cook, Emma Harris, Nazila Alinaghi, Simon Duncan, Hamed Shafiee, and Kirsten Jensen (Te Tai Ōhanga The Treasury), Tim Garlick, Bryan Perry and Alix Jansen, (Ministry of Social Development), Anna Chapman (Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women), Andrew Webber and Josh Logan (Social Wellbeing Agency).
Sweden – Mats Johansson and Katinka Hort (Ministry of Finance), Nina Grönborg and Johan Åhman (Statistics Sweden), Magnus Granlund and Emma Wajnblom (Swedish Parliamentary Research Division).
Financial support was provided by the Koran Institute of Public Finance. In particular, the authors are grateful to Hyuna Kim and Jeonghwan Kim.