uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper …. The DEA model has a two input-one output structure, with at least one of the variables representing a composite indicator …

spending efficiency in developing Asia. Using data envelopment analysis, we find that East Asia has the highest average output …- and input-oriented technical efficiency scores among the subregions. Universal health coverage service coverage index and … population density have the strongest effect on health spending efficiency. In addition, using the novel framework of macro …