Download or read book Measuring Government Activity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises the available OECD and other international data on public sector inputs and processes. It also examines the existing internationally comparable data on outputs and outcomes, and recommends new approaches to measurement.
Download or read book Taking the measure of government performance written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good performance measurement frameworks show taxpayers what they are getting for their money and enable the Government to assess whether it is achieving its key objectives cost-effectively. In its final review of the quality of the data systems used by government departments to measure progress against Public Service Agreements (PSAs), the NAO concludes that the PSA framework provided a clear focus on the objectives that mattered for the then Government, and had gradually improved. The quality of data systems and of disclosures about measurement policies has risen: 58 per cent of PSA data systems, under 2007's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), were fit for purpose, up from 30 per cent under the 2002 Spending Review. The NAO notes, however, that a third of CSR07 systems needed strengthening to improve controls or transparency and 10 per cent of systems were not fit for purpose. PSAs became progressively more focused on key priorities, and more clearly stated however they generally did not make clear the extent to which outcomes were the result of government activity. And financial information has been poorly linked with PSA indicators. The apportionment of annual departmental expenditure was not broken down by the indicators used to report progress and did not facilitate more in-depth analysis of the cost of progress. This hinders strategic decision-making because it is not clear what allocation of available resources could achieve the best overall results. The ability to link financial and performance information is particularly significant at a time when public sector budgets face severe cuts.
Download or read book Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity written by Donald M. Disk and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Organisations Measure Success written by Neil Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. How Organisations Measure Success analyses existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative and its apotheosis in the 1990s Next Steps Initiative. How Organisations Measure Success reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and will be of great interest to students of social policy and public administration as well as professionals working in government and public sector management.
Download or read book Measuring Productivity in State and Local Government written by Donald M. Fisk and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Productivity of Federal Government Organizations written by United States. Bureau of the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey and 5 case studies on the measurement of productivity in the federal public services of USA. Research methods.
Download or read book Measuring the Government Sector of the U S Economic Accounts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-07-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of the Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The focus of the workshop was on revising the presentation of the government sector in the U.S. economic accounts to bring it more into line with the international System of National Accounts (SNA) and current data collection capability, to enhance information about the public sector, and to make the U.S. accounts more comparable to those of other countries.
Download or read book Comparing Government Activity written by Louis M. Imbeau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative analysis of government activity raises many methodological, theoretical and substantive problems. In this volume authors drawn from varied subfields of political science address some of these problems, including: the usefulness of expenditure data, case interdependence, the issue of non-decision, the measurement of the distribution of power through laws, methodological individualism, cultural explanations, politico-economic interactions, the usefulness of textual analysis and issues of accumulation and aggregation.
Download or read book Government Contingent Liabilities and the Measurement of Fiscal Impact written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional fiscal accounting methodologies do not appropriately account for governments’ noncash policies, such as their contingent liabilities. When these liabilities are called, budget costs can be large, as evidenced by the United States’ saving and loan crisis. In general, deficit measures may underestimate the macroeconomic impact of government policies, promoting the substitution of noncash for cash expenditure and increasing future financing requirements. The paper describes extended deficit measures to address the problem, but notes their limited practical value. Nonetheless, some alternative methods of valuing contingent liabilities are proposed to gauge fiscal impact and facilitate budgetary control.
Download or read book Measuring Government in the Twenty First Century written by Livio Di Matteo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government is the single most pervasive institution of modern life, with all facets affected by public sector activities. Over the last 100 years, government spending around the world has grown in terms of both spending percapita and share of national output. During the twentieth century, the relative size of government grew steadily, with surges during the two world wars. Figure 1.1 shows general government expenditure as a share of national output for the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom from 1948 to 2011. In 1870, government spending to GDP ratios in these countries were well below 10 percent (Tanzi, 2011: 8), but those ratios had more than tripled by the end of the twentieth century and have continued to grow in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Government R D Funding and Company Behaviour Measuring Behavioural Additionality written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does government funding of corporate R&D affect the behaviour of firms? Ongoing efforts to boost business investment in R&D demand better methods of evaluating the effectiveness of government policy instruments. Efforts to explicitly measure ...
Download or read book The Status of Productivity Measurement in State Government written by State and Local Government Research Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Performance Measurement written by Stacey Barr and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government at a Glance 2009 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, biennial publication, Government at a Glance provides over 30 indicators describing OECD governments' performance. It compares their political and institutional frameworks, provides data on revenues, expenditures and employment, and indicators on openness, integrity, and e-government.
Download or read book Quality of Government and Living Standards written by Francesco Grigoli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally acknowledged that the government’s output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government activities (i.e., same output could be achieved with less inputs), implying that inputs are not a good approximation for outputs. If taken seriously, the next logical step is to purge from GDP the fraction of government inputs that is wasted. As differences in the quality of the public sector have a direct impact on citizens’ effective consumption of public and private goods and services, we must take them into account when computing a measure of living standards. We illustrate such a correction computing corrected per capita GDPs on the basis of two studies that estimate efficiency scores for several dimensions of government activities. We show that the correction could be significant, and rankings of living standards could be re-ordered as a result.
Download or read book Why Governments Grow written by Charles Lewis Taylor and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is unlikely to be agreement about why government grows (much less whether or not this is beneficial) until there is some clearer notion of what is to be measured. Public revenues and expenditures are surely not sufficient to reflect the scope of the public sector, but what should be included? A distinguished international group of scholars consider the number of people employed, the extent of services performed, the quantity of laws enacted, and the degree of regulation enforced. @3`...the book marks a significant step forward for a body of research that has typically been more concerned with normative and theoretical issues.' -- Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Summer 1984 @3`This scho
