productivity growth in the country's general insurance sector. The present study addresses the efficiency and productivity issues … an abrupt rise in the footfall of private players, has eventually raised concerns about their operational efficiency and …-08. The study applies the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the technical and scale efficiency scores …

, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector … second section is titled "Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector - Advances in Theory and Practice." This division is …. For a government agency that provides a public service, striving for unreasonable benchmark targets for efficiency may …

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces …