Download or read book The Efficiency of Government Expenditure written by Ms.Keiko Honjo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the efficiency of government expenditure on education and health in 38 countries in Africa in 1984-95, both in relation to each other and compared with countries in Asia and the Western Hemisphere. The results show that, on average, countries in Africa are less efficient than countries in Asia and the Western Hemisphere; however, education and health spending in Africa became more efficient during that period. The assessment further suggests that improvements in educational attainment and health output in African countries require more than just higher budgetary allocations.
Download or read book Education at a Glance 2007 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved.
Download or read book Efficiency of Social Sector Expenditure in India written by Brijesh Purohit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty. Hence, budgetary expenditure to be mobilized for such investments needs to be efficiently allocated and utilized to maximize the greatest good. This book focuses on the social sector in India and provides an overview of the sector. The book looks at 15 major Indian states between the year 2000-2011 to see how these states had invested in social sector and whether they had met the criteria of efficient social sector investment. Using stochastic frontier models, the book provides an efficiency norm and making use of this normative estimate, it compares performance across 15 Indian states and suggests important policy implications to improve the future performance of the social sector. The book adopts various quantitative techniques in the analysis and establishes that inefficient and inappropriate allocation of inputs was made in both health and education sectors. The book suggests that such problems and future challenges could be overcome by an appropriate mix of emphasis in different activities. This book will provide insight for those who want to learn more about how to build the capacity of the social sector in more efficient manner by exploring the social sector of India.
Download or read book The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Public Spending written by Ulrike Mandl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Concepts of efficiency and effectiveness of public performance - 3. How to measure efficiency and effectiveness - 4. The composition of expenditures: some stylised facts - 5. Efficiency and effectiveness of educational and R & D spending - Annex: Illustration of reform initiatives taken by Member States.
Download or read book Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems written by John Rapoport and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective country over the past 20-30 years are identified. In addition, the economic characteristics of each policy are described and, where possible, its success evaluated, discussing the current policy agenda. A final chapter summarizes and synthesizes the major points of the analysis. While the main focus is on economics, this guide is written in non-technical language for an audience of health policy decision makers or students of health policy, making it an invaluable contribution to the current debate surrounding the control of rising healthcare-related costs in the developed world.
Download or read book Education at a Glance 2017 written by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and published by Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. With more than 125 charts and 145 tables included in the publication and much more data available on the educational database, Education at a Glance 2017 provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of schools. The 2017 edition presents a new focus on fields of study, investigating both trends in enrolment at upper secondary and tertiary level, student mobility, and labour market outcomes of the qualifications obtained in these fields. The publication also introduces for the first time a full chapter dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals, providing an assessment of where OECD and partner countries stand on their way to meeting the SDG targets. Finally, two new indicators are developed and analysed in the context of participation and progress in education: an indicator on the completion rate of upper secondary students and an indicator on admission processes to higher education. The report covers all 35 OECD countries and a number of partner countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and South Africa). The Excel(tm) spreadsheets used to create the tables and charts in Education at a Glance are available via the StatLinks provided throughout the publication.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys United Kingdom 2007 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 edition of OECD's periodic economic survey of the British economy finds that the UK has embraced globalisation and has been rewarded with strong growth and performance, but that the near-term outlook is more uncertain, given recent ...
Download or read book Does Public Sector Inefficiency Constrain Firm Productivity written by Raffaela Giordano and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms across Italy’s provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of industries on the government, we find that public sector inefficiency significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency could yield large economic benefits: if the efficiency in all provinces reached the frontier, output per employee for the average firm would increase by 9 percent.
Download or read book Economic Policy Reforms 2008 Going for Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going for Growth 2008 takes stock of recent progress in implementing policy reforms to improve labour productivity and utilisation that were identified as priorities in the 2007 edition.
Download or read book Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education Education Policy Advice for Greece written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece faces significant challenges to its education system. To address these challenges, Greece has sought advice from an international task force. This report provides the outcomes of the work of the task force, presenting a roadmap for implementing reforms.
Download or read book Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics written by Bettina Bökemeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also inequality has risen since then. The book presents selected contributions of a workshop held at Bielefeld University in 2016 and features additional papers written by experts in the field. A mixture of established researchers and young scholars presents both theoretical and empirical frameworks to analyze the subject.
Download or read book Education at a Glance written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD education indicators enable countries to see themselves in light of other countries performance. They reflect on both the human and financial resources invested in education and on the returns of these investments.
Download or read book Health Care Systems Efficiency and Policy Settings written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores trends in health care outcomes and spending; ways of assessing efficiency; new indicators of health care policies and institutions; and the characteristics and performance of health care systems.
Download or read book Equity and Quality in Education Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. This book presents a series of policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys United Kingdom 2011 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 edition of OECD's periodic survey of the UK economy. This edition includes chapters covering supporting the recovery and rebalancing the economy, improving the functioning of the housing market, reforming education in England, and climate ...
Download or read book Iceland written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper analyses the impact of a potential rebalancing of Icelandic residents’ investment portfolios as capital controls are lifted. It applies optimal portfolio theory to calculate the potential rebalancing toward foreign assets, and then makes an estimate of the cumulative impact on the balance of payments and international reserves. Conclusions for the authorities’ capital account liberalization strategy are drawn. This paper also measures the potential budgetary savings from improving the efficiency of public spending in health and education in Iceland. A Data Envelopment Analysis is used to estimate an efficiency frontier by comparing across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries the transformation rates of public spending into valuable social outcomes.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Sweden 2011 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2011 edition of OECD's periodic survey of the Swedish economy includes chapters covering consolidating the recovery, monetary policy and the financial system, limiting long-term unemployment and non-participation, and enhancing the ...
