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 …

expenditure efficiency for the Italian regions, using the non-parametric DEA approach. The computation of efficiency scores allows … to rank the regions and to detect some room for improvement in terms of efficiency gains at the regional level …