Most OECD Member countries have sought to renew their systems and structures of public management in the last 10-15 years. Some started earlier than others and the emphasis will vary among Member countries according to their historic traditions and institutions. There is no single best model of public management, but what stands out most clearly is the extent to which countries have pursued and...

OBJECTIVE Global achievements in health may be limited by critical shortages of health-care workers. To help guide workforce policy, we estimate the future demand for, need for and supply of physicians, by WHO region, to determine where likely shortages will occur by 2015, the target date of the Millennium Development Goals. METHODS Using World Bank and WHO data on physicians per capita from ...

THIS PAPER EXPLORES the comparative productivity performance in manufacturing of three countries-Germany, Japan, and the United Statessince 1950.1 The productivity level estimates are based on the industryof-origin approach, making use of detailed information from censuses of manufactures for each country. Comparative measures of sectoral productivity levels have a vast array of applications in...

Projections are analyzed for the future supply and demand of scientists and engineers. The demographics of the college-age population combined with estimates of the percentage of students who will pursue careers in science and engineering indicate significant shortfalls between supply and demand for the next several decades at both the baccalaureate and Ph.D. levels. If these projections are re...

Everywhere in the OECD, there has been a shift in relative labor demand away from low-skill workers towards high-skill workers. In the United States, this has led to a decrease in the relative wage of low-skill workers. In Europe, constraints on the relative wage of low-skill workers have led instead to an increase in their unemployment rate, and thus an overall increase in unemployment. As Kru...

* This paper was prepared for the Moscow seminar on Russian economic reform, organised by the IMF for 5-7 April 2000, and summarises part of the work that the authors have done for Chapter 2 of OECD Economic Survey of Russia: 1999-2000.

R ecently, a number of Asian economies have been roiled by financial problems, including devaluations of their currencies on international markets and sharp declines in the market valuations of publicly traded companies. The recent problems in Asia have led many analysts to sharply reduce their forecasts for Asian economic growth over the next few years and, consequently, to expect exports to A...