France

France: Improving the efficiency of the health-care system

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low.

Boosting Disaster Prevention through Innovative Risk Governance - Insights from Austria, France and Switzerland

Enhancing competitiveness, purchasing power and employment by increasing competition in France

Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti competitive regulations and effectively enforced competition law against anti-competitive practices.

Regulatory Reform in OECD Countries: Reports by Country

The unique OECD peer review process has helped improve public policy. It assesses how countries manage the design, adoption and enforcement of regulations according to a conceptual framework. It ensures comparability while taking account of institutional and cultural differences across countries.

Tools for Regulatory Quality and Financial Sector Regulation: A Cross-country Perspective

This Working Paper provides a comparative perspective on the application of quality regulation principles to financial sector regulators, in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and France.

The Challenge of Restoring French Competitiveness

This working paper suggests that restoring competitiveness will require strengthening France's growth potential and to address the main long term determinants of that potential, such as fostering R&D, promoting innovation, reducing the tax burden, boosting competition and so on.

Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in France (Economics Department Working Paper 473)

This working paper suggests that French growth can be improved by removing restrictions on competition, chiefly in service sectors.

Enhancing Market Openness Through Regulatory Reform in France

This report on Enhancing Market Openness Through Regulatory Reform analyses the institutional set-up and use of policy instruments in France It also includes the country-specific policy recommendations developed by the OECD during the review process.