Transcript Lisbon Strategy

INTOSAI
Key challenges to Supreme Audit
Institutions as regards the EULisbon Process
Ulrike MANDL, ACA
The 3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy”
Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life
Busan, Korea - 27-30 October 2009
OVERVIEW
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The Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs
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Structural Indicators as Key National Indicators
III.
Role and Key Challenges of SAI
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The Lisbon Strategy
for Growth and Jobs
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In 2000, Heads of States and Governments
launched the „Lisbon Strategy“
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Benchmarking as means of improving the
implementation record of structural reforms
increased
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Structural Indicators as
Key National Indicators
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Structural Indicators
Instrument to align the national policies with the overall EU
goals
Indicators should help to communicate complex issues and
highlight
interlinkages
and
trade-offs
Peer pressure and mutual learning through information
sharing among the policy makers at national level should be
achieved.
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Structural Indicators as
Key National Indicators
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GDP per capita in PPS
Employment rate by gender
Labour productivity per person
employed
Employment rate of older workers by
gender
Innovation and Research
At-risk-of-poverty rate after social
transfers by gender
Youth education attainment level
by gender
Long-term unemployment rate by
gender
Gross domestic expenditure on
R&D (GERD)
Dispersion of regional employment
rates by gender
Comparative price levels
Greenhouse gas emissions Energy
intensity of the economyVolume of
freight transport relative to GDP
Business investment
III. Role and Key Challenges of SAI
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Challenges
 SAI`s Involvment
vs SAI`s independence
Data availability
 Data comparability
 Measurement problems
III. Role and Key Challenges of SAI
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Role of SAI
1.
SAI could provide information to contribute
to Lisbon-type structural reforms
– Provide information on gains and costs of reforms
– Outline opportunity costs of no-policy-change
– Identify cost drivers
Role and Key Challenges of SAI
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Ex. Pension Reform in Austria - Highlighting opportinity costs!
III. Role and Key Challenges of SAI
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Role of SAI
2.
SAI could provide context information as
regards key national indicators
– Evaluate country specifics (social system, public transfers,
etc.) to ease the design of indicators
– Provide additional performance information to support
decision making on KNI
Conclusion
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SAI could mobilise its own instruments to contibute
to the needed information to trigger structural
reforms.
SAI could help to overcome data and measurement
problems as audits could deliver the missing link of
information needed to rely on KNI.
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Thank you very much
for your Attention!
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Background Information
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Structural Indicators as
Key National Indicators
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24 Integrated Guidelines
Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and
Emplyment Guidelines
Macroeconomic guidelines
(1) To secure economic stability.
(2) To safeguard economic and fiscal sustainability.
(3) To promote a growth- and employment-orientated and efficient allocation of resources.
(4) To secure economic stability for sustainable growth.
(5) To ensure that wage developments contribute to macroeconomic stability and growth.
(6) To contribute to a dynamic and well-functioning EMU.
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Key National Indicators
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24 Integrated Guidelines
Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and
Emplyment Guidelines
Microeconomic guidelines
(7) To increase and improve investment in R & D, in particular by private business.
(8) To facilitate all forms of innovation.
(9) To facilitate the spread and effective use of ICT and build a fully inclusive information society.
(10) To strengthen the competitive advantages of its industrial base.
(11) To encourage the sustainable use of resources and strengthen the synergies between environmental protection and growth.
(12) To extend and deepen the internal market.
(13) To ensure open and competitive markets inside and outside Europe and to reap the benefits of globalisation.
(14) To create a more competitive business environment and encourage private initiative through better regulation.
(15) To promote a more entrepreneurial culture and create a supportive environment for SMEs.
(16) To expand, improve and link up European infrastructure and complete priority cross-border projects.
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Key National Indicators
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24 Integrated Guidelines
Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and
Emplyment Guidelines
Employment guidelines
(17) Implement employment policies aiming at achieving full employment, improving quality and productivity at work, and
strengthening social and territorial cohesion.
(18) Promote a life-cycle approach to work.
(19) Ensure inclusive labour markets, enhance work attractiveness, and make work pay for job-seekers, including disadvantaged people,
and the inactive.
(20) Improve matching of labour market needs.
(21) Promote flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation, having due regard to the role of the
social partners.
(22) Ensure employment-friendly labour cost developments and wage-setting mechanisms.
(23) Expand and improve investment in human capital.
Organisation Chart
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4 Goals
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Strategic Plan of INTOSAI 2005-2010
Goal 1:
Accountability and Professional Standards
Goal 2:
Institutional Capacity Building
Goal 3:
Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Services
Goal 4:
Model International Organisation
Goal 3
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• TF Financial Crisis – USA
Websites
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www.intosai.org
www.issai.org
www.intosaijournal.org