We applied the DEA method, used in many research studies to evaluate the efficiency of the sectors.
The assessment of the efficiency of public sector health services undertaken in this study provides an important complement to existing studies by indicating tools that are relevant for enabling regional managers to contribute to improving efficiency in the context of a decentralized administration.
To spur growth, he said Italy must deregulate closed professional guilds, opening them to competition, as well as improve the efficiency of public sector services.
However, on the other hand, increasing informal sector size also facilitates financial development through easing the capacity constraint on the financial sector, thereby increasing the efficiency of the financial sector.
But in practice, the public sector is currently no match for the efficiency of the private sector, despite subsidies in the form of taxpayers' money flowing back to the public sector.
The significant systemic complexity of the healthcare sector determines the analytical level of research studies and the choice of adequate methods for assessing the efficiency of the healthcare sector.
A 2003 European Central Bank report on the efficiency of the public sector in 23 countries ranked France 20th.
They've argued that public services should be privatized, or at least model the "efficiency" of the private sector.
The OECD, a mostly-rich countries' club, will report on the efficiency of the public sector later this year.Reducing Northern Ireland's dependence on the state is a bigger challenge, admits Mr Hamilton.
Sounds like the efficiency of the private sector at work!
