Public sector efficiency: evidence for new EU member states and emerging markets

By António Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht, V. Tanzi. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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In this article, we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the EU compared to that in emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement, we compute efficiency scores and rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states is rather diverse especially as compared to the group of top performing emerging markets in Asia. Econometric analysis shows that higher income, civil service competence and education levels as well as the security of property rights seem to facilitate the prevention of inefficiencies in the public sector.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. António Afonso
2. D. Hauner
3. A. Kyobe
4. V. Tanzi
5. Ludger Schuknecht
6. F. Ilzkovitz
7. A. Dierx
8. Ulrike Mandl

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. A. Kyobe
2. D. Hauner
3. António Afonso
4. F. Ilzkovitz
5. A. Dierx
6. Ulrike Mandl
7. V. Tanzi
8. Ludger Schuknecht

Citations in the corpus

• Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries (2008, unknown): “Sijpe and Rayp (2007) estimated government inefficiency for 52 developing countries over the 1990’s. Afonso et al. (2006) estimated the public sector efficiency of the new EU member states and emerging economies.”
• Income distribution determinants and public spending efficiency (2010, background): “Studies include Fakin and Crombrugghe [17] for the whole public sector in transition economies, Gupta and Verhoeven [22] for education and health in Africa, Clements [13] for education in Europe, Afonso et al. [1, 2 ] for the public sector in the OECD and in emerging markets, Afonso and St. Aubyn [”
• Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective (2011, background): “Still, exceptions exist in which researchers regard the overall performance of locallevel (surveyed below) or higher-level governments (e.g. Afonso et al., 2005, 2010).”
• The effectiveness and efficiency of public spending (2008, methodology): “Pritchard (2001) for the Productivity measurement in the UK 5 Afonso et al. (2005), etc.”
• Determinants of Government Efficiency (2008, background): “On the other hand, higher income has often been found to be associated with better health and education outcomes (Afonso and Aubyn, 2006; Afonso et al., 2006; Herrera and Pang, 2005), while, on the other hand, poorer countries have been found to exhibit inferior government performance (La Porta et”
• Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample (2008, unknown): “ Afonso et al. (2006) have also constructed measures of public sector efficiency for a group of 24 upper-middle income countries for the late nineties.”