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 …

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public … qualify, as "performing well" from those were some improvement might increase its efficiency. This is a first effort of … checking efficiency and productivity in Portuguese public tertiary education using non-parametric analysis …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector … efficiency in the provision of education, the paper develops a set of comparable indicators which reflect international … differences in the levels of efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector both within and among countries. The paper …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …

. Evaluating efficiency in these sectors is of great importance for public policy - an inefficient situation will imply the … better health status of the Portuguese. Nevertheless, efficiency frontier estimation results provide evidence in favour of … disappointing at an international level. It is suggested that promoting efficiency in this sector should include a careful …

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 …

recession. Increasing the efficiency of social spending could be the key policy to address the dilemma as it allows the … optimization of the existing resources by reducing spending inefficiencies. This paper quantifies the efficiency gap in the health …

, 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 …

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 …

education reforms have started to address these issues, but more needs to be done to increase the efficiency of spending by …