Government spending efficiency, measurement and applications: A cross-country efficiency dataset

Antonio Afonso, Joao Jalles and Ana Venâncio

Chapter 3 in Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, 2023, pp 44-71 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over the time period between 2006 and 2017. First, we define a set of economic and sociodemographic metrics necessary to construct performance composite indicators. Second, we calculate and report a full set of (input and output oriented) efficiency scores based on the performance indicators previously computed.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Working Paper: Government Spending Efficiency, Measurement and Applications: a CrossCountry Efficiency Dataset (2020)
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