Executive summary
Assessment and recommendations
-The government is facing both short- and long-term challenges
-Sizeable fiscal consolidation is under way
-Globalisation and policies for the business sector
-Preparing the labour market for further globalisation and population ageing
-Promoting competition and cost control in the health care sector
-Bibliography
-Annex A1. Progress in structural reform
Chapter 1. Reforming policies for the business sector to harvest the benefits of globalisation
-The benefits and challenges of globalisation
-Benefiting from globalisation by strengthening the business environment
-Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Dutch labour market: Preparing for the future
-The effect of globalisation on labour demand
-Policies to foster labour mobility
-Bibliography
Chapter 3. Health care reform and long-term care in the Netherlands
-Performance of the health care system
-The health care sector was substantially reformed in the second half of the 2000s
-The next wave of reform
-Population ageing will put pressure on a costly long-term care system
-Conclusion
-Bibliography