questionable how effective these attempts have been to date. Corruption has a complex relationship with public sector reform …. Reform is often executed which has as one of its objectives the control of corruption, but reform itself may be a cause of … corruption according to some evidence from recent rounds of economic and public sector reform. The nature of the relationship is …

financing. The issue of national healthcare systems’ efficiency is addressed, through building a model of change in healthcare … healthcare expenditures, the lesser is their efficiency in terms of healthcare quality improvement. Then, empirical evidence is …

The objective of this study is to explore if the successful reform process of the Singapore Civil Service (carried out … in Italian public administration characterised by low levels of productivity and efficiency. To do that this paper will … delivered to the Singaporeans; 2) the main features, which afflict the Italian P.A. efficiency;3) the possibility to introduce …

productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …

This paper aims to analyse the impact of port demand variability on the allocative efficiency of Spanish port … authorities during the period 1986-2007. From a distance function model we can obtain a measure of allocative efficiency using two … variability does not affect the efficiency measures, except in the case of containerised general cargo. Moreover, we demonstrate …

successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …

institutions and ongoing cooperation and dialogue among relevant authorities. …

. Finally, the 2007 survey on the money transfer activities (hawalas) shows that these institutions have a significant impact on …