This review is published by the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD under the guidance of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance, and overall supervision of Jon Blondal, Head of Public Management and Budgeting Division.
This publication was authored by Scherie Nicol (Lead – Independent Fiscal Institutions), Scott Cameron (Policy Analyst), and Jason Jacques (expert). The team benefited from expert contributions by Bert Smit (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) and Wouter van der Wielen (expert). Herwig Immervoll (Senior Economist at the OECD’s Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate), Nicolas Ruiz (Senior Economist at the OECD’s Economics Department) and Cathal O’Donoghue (National University of Ireland, Galway) also provided counsel over the course of the project. The report was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik.
The authors appreciate the views and support of experts at the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau throughout the process including Baudouin Regout, Saskia Weemaes, Igor Lebrun, Bart Hertveldt, Rik Vanhauteghem and wider analytical staff.
The authors thank Louise Jensen and Päivi Valkama of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) for their support in co-ordinating the project.