This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El …-specialized health workers improves efficiency, maintaining quality of care. …

A framework is developed with what we call technology capital. A country is a measure of locations. Absent policy … constraints, a firm owning a unit of technology capital can produce the composite output good using the unit of technology capital … is what constrains the number of units it operates using this unit of technology capital. If it has two units of …

basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth …