productivity and efficiency indices using a Malmquist productivity index (MPI) for four significant expenditures for the 2004 … the significant elements in measuring government expenditure efficiency. From the estimation results, the degree of fiscal … decentralization is found to promote government expenditure efficiency. Tax revenue collected by regional governments will support …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

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 …

public expenditure growth and improve public administration efficiency to reduce the public “footprint” on the economy and …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

efficiency. …

and efficiency achieved. Taking the findings of the professional literature into account, we divided the developed …