In this paper we seek a robust methodology to measure the relative public spending efficiency of 19 OECD countries over … into its separate accounts and we employ a semi-parametric method to obtain relative efficiency scores (for the separate …. Finally, we propose a technique to measure the allocative efficiency of public spending, in an effort to proxy the optimal …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency. A … country-level dataset is used to measure public sector efficiency in delivering education and health services and the new …, between 1970 and 2000. Irrespective of whether public sector efficiency concerns education or health services, an inverted U …

budget users are responsible for monitoring their performance and efficiency. On this basis, we developed a theoretical … concept of connections between different levels of long-term goals, implementational goals as well as efficiency and …