further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …

Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context … in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and compare the efficiency of OECD health systems in 2000, 2008, and … 2016. The contribution to research in the field of efficiency in the healthcare system can be seen in the application of …

, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … that educational efficiency in Uruguayan high schools significantly dropped in nine percentage points between 2009 and 2012 …. In this vein, our findings also show positive effects on public schools’ efficiency of providing the responsibility in …

This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …

countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering … services trade restrictiveness) on productivity and efficiency of the ICT sector across countries. The SFA scores are compared … with the DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist Index based on four DEA problems are used to work out the total factor …