| Promoting a harmonious and sustainable development of economic activities and non-inflationary growth (Article 2 EC Treaty)... | European Union | 03/19/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / International | Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Tools / Impact Assessment | Regulatory Governance | Monitoring Regulatory Quality | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Administrative Costs | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Regulatory Costs | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Systems of Indicators | Service Delivery - EnforcementPopular Tags: cost-effectiveness | Cost-effectiveness analysis | market-based instruments | growth | Discounting | Co-regulation | monitoring self-regulation | evaluation | Roadmap | Methods of comparing impacts | Open method of co-ordination | questionnaire | monitoring | Cost-benefit analysis | information and guidelines | Indicators and Quantitative Tools | Life cycle assessment approach | Regulatory watch | Market failures | prescriptive regulatory actions | competitiveness and jobs | direct public sector financial interventions | Multi-criteria analysis | Quantitative Models | Framework directives | Risk analysis | Monetisation of non-market impacts | Sensitivity analysis | Policy instruments | legislative induced administrative costs | Regulatory Failures |
| Presentation held at the DEBR - Brdo (Slovenia), 2007 | Austria | 03/18/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / National | Market RegulationPopular Tags: case-by-case | communication measures | Austrian job agency |
| In response to concerns about the economic impact of regulation, governments are making increasing use of cost-benefit analysis as a tool for informing and improving regulatory decisions. In 2002, the European Union required that an impact assessment be done for all major initiatives, including many regulations, directives, decisions, and communications... | | 03/17/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / International | Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Tools / Impact AssessmentPopular Tags: EU | Regulatory Evaluation | Method | USA | Quality | RIA |
| IRRC 2008, Introductory Seesion, Speech of State Secretary Dr. Beus (Review what has already been achieved.) | Germany | 12/15/2008 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs / NationalPopular Tags: regulatory impact assessment | Programme for Bureaucracy Reduction and Better Regulation | better regulation | standard cost model | reduction | RIA |
| IRRC 2008, session 5.2: Nick Godfrey, Department for International Development, London | | 12/02/2008 |
| Topics: Strategic Policy Making | Strategic Policy Making / Competence | Strategic Policy Making / CommunicationPopular Tags: measurement | adaptation | Kenya | SMART regulation | communication | BRG | global financial crisis | key stakeholders | incentives | Ghana | Uganda | FIAS | Lesotho | political context | political economy | Sierra Leone | DFID | Nigeria | Tanzania | Netherlands | poverty |
| The Better Regulation for Growth (BRG) Program will support high quality, low-cost and low risk business regulation in developing countries by adapting and communicating best practices on regulatory simplification and systemic regulatory reform. | | 03/22/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / International | Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Tools / Risk Analysis | Regulatory Tools / Impact Assessment | Monitoring Regulatory Quality | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Administrative Costs | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Regulatory Costs | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Systems of IndicatorsPopular Tags: guillotine | operational policy | developing countries | BRG | scrap-and-build approaches | practical policy | business risks | RIA | Regulatory Quality Indicators | FIAS | transition countries | toolkits | monitoring framework | regulatory governance initiatives | DFID | regulatory costs | regulatory tools | RIA systems |
| Steering group meeting, Rome 5th February 2007 | | 03/17/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / International | Regulatory Reform Programs / National | Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Governance | Monitoring Regulatory Quality | Service Delivery - Enforcement | Strategic Policy MakingPopular Tags: Italy | NKR | Germany | Ireland | SCM | Austria | Normenkontrollrat | Strategies and Conceptions Unit | Belgium | The Netherlands | personas | transparency | Baseline measurement | law-making process | Sweden | debureaucratization | Reducing/minimising administrative burdens | Organisational issues | Denmark | Czech Republic | parallel regulation | Simplification Plans | Ex-ante assessments | National Regulatory Impact Council | Hungary | Regulation Quality Unit | France | Impact Assessment Unit | Spain |
| This report examines current trends in the process and methods of RIA by the top RIA performers in the world. The particular contribution of this report is that it assesses the most recent trends (2002-2006) in many of the most advanced countries, and identifies lessons for governments who wish to be at the forefront of good regulation practices. | | 11/07/2008 |
| Topics: Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Tools / Risk Analysis | Regulatory Tools / Regulatory Choice | Regulatory Tools / Impact AssessmentPopular Tags: risk assessment | SME analysis | data quality standard | Ireland | partial analyses | cost-effectiveness analysis | administrative burden analysis | data collection method | Canada | comparing policy options | RIA | quality control | Australia | distributional assessments | public consultation | integrated analysis | uncertainty analysis | European Commission | business impact analysis | New Zealand | soft benefit-cost analysis |
| Administrative burden reduction policies are a priority on the political agenda. The removal of measures of direct state control constitutes the main source of regulatory improvement between 1998 and 2003. Now the emphasis falls on measures to remove barriers to trade, investment and entrepreneurship. This puts administrative simplification in the broader context of policies to enhance performance and productivity. | | 03/22/2009 |
| Topics: Regulatory Reform Programs | Regulatory Reform Programs / International | Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Tools / Impact Assessment | Monitoring Regulatory Quality | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Administrative Costs | Monitoring Regulatory Quality / Regulatory CostsPopular Tags: Institutional frameworks | quality of regulation | Simplification strategies | Standard Cost Model | best practice tool kit | Administrative burden | Simplification tools | Administrative Simplification | RIA |
| The paper views the current financial crisis in light of long-term structural socioeconomic changes in advanced industrial societies. In Western Europe, the United States and Japan, the period of economic prosperity after the Second World War led to a remarkable accumulation of wealth among the middle class that had surprisingly little effect on the substantial fortunes of the wealthiest upper class. | | 11/13/2008 |
| Topics: Regulatory Tools | Regulatory Governance | Regulatory Governance / Bretton Woods et al. | Market RegulationPopular Tags: financial crisis | capital markets | speculative bubbles | instability | financial liquidity | multilevel analysis | market regulation | Europe | wealth | collective Buddenbrooks effect | advanced industrial societies | Japan | United States | structural changes | structural upward social mobility |