the delivery of services to the poor, i.e., improving efficiency, accountability, and transparency, and reducing bribery …

This paper investigates the political determinants of public sector efficiency using a cross-national data from 117 … efficiency frontiers, developing-country frontiers and developed-country frontiers, and governments in developed countries on … average have better efficiency than those in developing countries. Tobit estimation in the second stage finds that not the …

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 …

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …

This paper explores the relationship between public sector efficiency (PSE) and the level of democracy, both …