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This paper reviews public expenditure in Lithuania to identify areas where deeper structural
 reforms may be warranted to improve spending efficiency and contain future spending
 pressures. The analysis benchmarks spending in Lithuania against other European countries
 focusing on spending levels, spending composition, and spending outcomes, and for both
 economic and functional spending classifications. While recent expenditure consolidation efforts
 have kept public spending among the lowest in Europe, a transition from broad-based measures
 to more structural measures will be required: to ensure that low spending levels remain
 sustainable, to address poor social outcomes such as high inequality and poor health and
 education outcomes, and to efficiently and equitably contain spending pressures arising from an
 ageing population.

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