general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into … countries are wasted because of inefficiencies. Although efficiency greatly varies across countries, low-income countries are … overall facing a double issue of low levels of education expenditure and weak efficiency of public expenditure on education …

a model to evaluate the efficiency of public spending using data from 71 countries during the period 1996-2017. The …

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 …