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  • Measuring relative efficiency in health and education sector : the case of East European countries
    Aristovnik, Aleksander
    The main purpose of the article is to review and to discuss different conceptual and methodological issues related to the performance measurement in public sector. In particular, free disposal hull ... (FDH) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques are presented and then applied to selected East European countries (EEC). The article employs indicators related to efficiency in a selected policy areas such as education and healthcare. The results show that efficiency differs significantly across the selected countries. However, in general, a relatively average performance in most of the selected EEC is accomplished with too many inputs so that efficiency is quite low. In other words, the selected countries could use less resource to attain the same outcomes if they were fully efficient. In addition, the article points out some deficiencies relating to the employed techniques and definitions.
    Source: Actual problems of economics = Aktualʹni problemi ekonomìki. - ISSN 1993-6788 (No. 12 (138), 2012, str. 266-275)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2012
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4245166

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