The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It … efficiency. The findings of SFA lend empirical evidences to what the literature says about the health devolution experience in … inefficiency. These issues should be addressed to fully reap the potential benefits (e.g., efficiency gains) from fiscal …

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 …