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  • 6-March-2024

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    Boosting competition, strengthening public finances and reforms to education will help to put Hungary on a stronger growth path

    Hungary’s economy recovered strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic before dipping into a mild recession as high inflation eroded households’ purchasing power and high interest rates and low confidence dampened investment, according to the latest OECD Economic Survey of Hungary released today.

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  • 7-November-2023

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    Health at a Glance 2023: Key findings for Hungary

    Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on population health and health system performance. This Country Note shows how Hungary compares to other OECD countries across indicators in the report.

  • 14-September-2023

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    Embracing a One Health Framework to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance in Hungary

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the ability of microbes to resist antimicrobials - remains an alarming global health threat that jeopardises the effectiveness of many 20th century public health advances. In recent years, Hungary made important strides in tackling AMR. Yet, more progress is needed.

  • 28-April-2023

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    Towards a National Circular Economy Strategy for Hungary

    The growing demand for raw materials in the Hungarian economy projected up to 2050 is expected to exert significant additional pressure on the environment, putting the country at risk of missing important environmental goals and opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of its economy. Despite the notable progress in decoupling environmental pressures from economic activities over the past 20 years, several challenges remain. The transition to a circular economy has significant potential to address these challenges. To fully realise the circular potential of its economy, Hungary will need to adopt a comprehensive circular economy policy framework. This report outlines a set of key elements for the development of the Hungarian national circular economy strategy and action plan. It identifies priority areas that are deemed critical to the Hungarian circular economy transition, including: biomass and food, construction and plastics, as well as cross-cutting horizontal tools to facilitate an economy-wide circular transition. It also provides 45 policy recommendations and suggests specific implementation actions across the priority areas for the short, medium and long term.
  • 23-February-2023

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    OECD Development Co‑operation Peer Reviews: Hungary 2023

    The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. A DAC member since only 2016, Hungary has achieved impressive growth in its official development assistance (ODA). Bilateral co-operation has increased, in particular, and relies on close consultation with partners. Hungary champions sustainable water management, combining diplomacy, domestic expertise and development co-operation. In fragile contexts, it focuses its support to local civil society organisations, and in particular faith-based actors. As it continues to make progress towards established DAC standards and ways of working, an institutional reorganisation provides Hungary with significant opportunities for further reform. This peer review provides a set of recommendations to increase the impact of Hungary’s engagement in partner countries, deepen collaboration across institutions and with stakeholders, strengthen internal systems, and balance tensions between domestic and global objectives.
  • 31-January-2023

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    OECD Working Group on Bribery public statement on Hungary - 31 January 2023

    Hungary should urgently implement long-standing OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendations, enforce its foreign bribery laws and improve its engagement with the Working Group on Bribery.

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  • 30-November-2022

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    Revenue Statistics: Key findings for Hungary

    The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Hungary decreased by 2.1 percentage points from 36.1% in 2020 to 34.0% in 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, the OECD average increased from 33.6% to 34.1%.

  • 30-July-2021

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    Hungary: reforms to raise productivity would strengthen recovery from COVID-19, says OECD

    Hungary’s economy is emerging from the crisis caused by COVID-19, yet sustaining the country’s robust pre-pandemic levels of growth will require reforms to foster productivity and job creation, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 19-May-2021

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    Preventing Harmful Alcohol Use: Key Findings for Hungary

    People in Hungary consume 11.3 litres of pure alcohol per capita per year, roughly equivalent to 2.3 bottles of wine or 4.3 litres of beer per week per person aged 15 and over. In addition, in Hungary, some population groups are at higher risk than others.

  • 17-December-2019

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    Hungary - Country Health Profiles 2019: Launch presentation

    Hungary - Country Health Profiles 2019: Launch presentation. The Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area, emphasizing the particular characteristics and challenges in each country against a backdrop of cross-country comparisons.

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