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Balancing investments in public service personnel and its healthcare provision output : an efficiency analysis for Brazilian municipalities
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515673
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Active and passive waste in government spending: evidence from a policy experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Valletti, Tommaso M. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1278-1308
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896737
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Will privatization reduce costs?
Lindqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2007
I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456076
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The Role of Local Governments’ Efficiency in Decentralized Public Service Delivery : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Russia
Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2011
satisfaction is ambiguous, little evidence has been provided regarding the role that the efficiency of local governments may play … towards enhancing local governments’ efficiency in three regions of rural Russia (Adyghea, Penza and Perm) at the onset of a … public services. Rather, it appears that enhancing local managerial efficiency in delivering public services is a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175696
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Does the usage of TV streaming on the internet bring about new functions to the public service broadcaster? : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Kuroda, Toshifumi; Kido, Daido; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603420
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The Public Services Provided by Brazilian Government Over the Internet
Moniz de Bittencourt Filho, Jorge Calmon; Loiola, … - 2001
This paper focus on public services delivery process over the Internet, checking how efficient are government that use the Internet to provide information and services to citizens. To achieve this purpose, a web site evaluation of several local, state and federal governments was done. It might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035327
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Comparative Analysis of E-Governance Service Delivery Maturity Levels of Select Metropolitan Municipalities of South Africa and India
Ogra, Aurobindo - 2014
The effective municipal service delivery and good governance is one of the major challenges the municipalities are facing world over. From small municipalities to large metropolitan municipalities, the challenges surrounding these issues are more or less of similar nature but with varied scale....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065856
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The organisation of services of general interest in Finland
Willner, Johan; Grönblom, Sonja - 2016
Like in most other European countries, services of general interest in Finland have in recent years been subject to competition, increased private provision, and in some cases privatisation. This development is motivated by expected cost reductions, by EU regulations, by ideology and fashion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437146
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Public-sector outsourcing : the desirability of outsourcing the provision of public services depends on their characteristics and market conditions
Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419395
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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
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