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Public Services Productivity: An Analysis

Ed Balls, Joe Grice and Gus O’Donnell

Chapter 15 in Microeconomic Reform in Britain, 2004, pp 325-344 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the importance of improving public sector productivity and assesses how it can be measured1. It explains the market failures and equity considerations that can justify government involvement in the funding and provision of key services and the problems which must be overcome to increase public sector productivity.

Keywords: Public Sector; Public Service; Market Failure; Social Housing; Public Private Partnership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230518339_16

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