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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960622003321

Autore

Hauner David

Titolo

Determinants of Government Efficiency / / David Hauner, Annette Kyobe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612841798

9781462306350

1462306357

9781452711744

1452711747

9781451870862

1451870868

9781282841796

1282841793

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/228

Altri autori (Persone)

KyobeAnnette

Disciplina

352.375

Soggetti

Government productivity - Econometric models

Expenditures, Public - Econometric models

Administrative agencies - Management - Econometric models

Civil service & public sector

Demographic Economics: General

Demography

Education

Education: General

Finance, Public

Health economics

Health

Health: General

Income

Macroeconomics

Personal income

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Population & demography

Population and demographics

Population

Public Enterprises

Public sector



Public-Private Enterprises

Russian Federation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Methodology; III. Government Efficiency, 1980-2004; Tables; 1. Summary of Scores; 2. Spearman Rank Order Correlations; Figures; 1. Plots of PSP, PSE, and DEA Scores in Education and Health; 2. Evolution of Health and Education Spending, Performance, and Efficiency in Advanced and Developing Economies; IV. Determinants of Government Efficiency; 3. Tested-Down Regressions; 4. Overview of Univariate and Tested-Down Regressions; A. Economic Determinants; B. Institutional Determinants; C. Demographic and Geographic Determinants; V. Conclusions; VI. Appendix

A. Data SourcesB. Countries Included; C. Background Tables; A1. Summary of Determinants; A2. Univariate Regressions; A3. Multivariate Regressions; References

Sommario/riassunto

We compile the first large cross-country panel dataset of public sector performance and efficiency, encompassing 114 countries on all income levels from 1980 to 2006, with about 1,800 country-year observations for the education sector and about 900 observations for health. We regress these indicators on potential economic, institutional, demographic, and geographic determinants. Our most resounding conclusion is that higher government expenditure relative to GDP tends to be associated with lower efficiency in the respective sector. Moreover, we find that richer countries exhibit better public sector performance and efficiency, and that institutional and demographic factors also play a significant role.