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....

Efficiency of education and health provision in a sample of OECD countries is assessed by means of two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. The efficiency frontier is estimated using both measures of expenditure and quantity inputs, as a country may well be efficient from a...