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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 …
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Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...
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We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries’ fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use …
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We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries' fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use …
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;public competition policiesquot; aimed at improving the efficiency of public spending. Such measures are modeled as an increase in the …
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This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general …’s efficiency is markedly better. As far as public order and safety are concerned, major improvements could and should be made …
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This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general …’s efficiency is markedly better. As far as public order and safety are concerned, major improvements could and should be made …
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Do voters punish governments that introduce fiscal "austerity" measures? If so, does voter response vary according to the design (composition) of fiscal adjustments? What determines the timing of fiscal consolidations? The empirical literature on the political economy of fiscal adjustments,...
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In this paper we carry out a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the level and composition of public expenditure on the export orientation of agriculture using a panel data from eleven Latin American countries for the period of 1985 to 2001. We try to understand the role of different...
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