The study examined the long-run and causal relationship between international tourism
receipts (ITR), social distribution, FDI inflows, and carbon (CO2) emissions to verify the …

Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced
economies and health outputs and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply …

The study examined the contribution of different measures of human capital development to
economic growth in Nigeria. It used data from Nigeria and adopted the growth account …

The global agenda is undoubtedly determined by the success of achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). Both public and private institutions show great efforts towards …

This study analyzes the efficiency of public education spending and the role of possible
conditioning factors in upper-middle income Latin American countries compared to high …

This paper investigates the determinants of public‐sector efficiency, in particular the role of
fiscal decentralization and fiscal rules. For 23 European countries over the period from 1995 …

In this paper we use data from OECD countries participating in PISA 2012 to assess the
efficiency of schools in a cross-country framework. In the analysis, and in contrast to …

This paper uses a fully nonparametric framework to assess the efficiency of primary schools
using data about schools in 16 European countries participating in PIRLS 2011. This study …

A large volume of environmental science and pollution research has focused on the
contributions of various forms of energy consumption to emissions. However, little attention …

The cost-effective public provision of high-quality goods and services is crucial for longterm
growth. We study the determinants of public-sector efficiency (PSE) and in particular the role …