Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part I

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part II

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

Applying data envelopment analysis on accounting data to assess and optimize the efficiency of Greek local governments

M Doumpos, S Cohen - Omega, 2014 - Elsevier
The efficiency and effectiveness of local governments has become one of the main points of
interest in public sector administration, as decision and policy making gradually move from …

The trade-off between cost efficiency and public service quality: A non-parametric frontier analysis of Italian major municipalities

C Lo Storto - Cities, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at evaluating the cost efficiency
of 108 Italian major municipalities, and investigating to what extent the municipality …

[HTML][HTML] Gestão fiscal, eficiência da gestão pública e desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos municípios cearenses

CRM Silva, VL Crisóstomo - Revista de Administração Pública, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
A administração pública tem o papel na sociedade de gerenciar o patrimônio público de
modo a proporcionar melhores níveis de bem-estar social, promovendo maior …

Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

I Otoo, M Danquah - African Development Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies
(MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of …

Explaining differences in efficiency: A meta‐study on local government literature

F Aiello, G Bonanno - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the literature on local government efficiency by meta‐reviewing 360
observations retrieved from 54 papers published from 1993 to 2016. The meta‐regression is …

Fiscal management, public management efficiency and socioeconomic development of Ceará municipalities

CRM Silva, VL Crisóstomo - Revista de Administração Pública, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
The role of public administration in society is to manage public assets to provide better
social welfare, promoting greater socioeconomic development. The efficient use of public …

Efficiency of local self-governments in Serbia: an SFA approach

B Radulovic, S Dragutinović - Industrija, 2015 - aseestant.ceon.rs
We examine the extent of inefficiency in a sample of 143 Serbian local self-governments for
the year 2012. The input side is described by current expenditures of the local self …

Measuring the efficiency of public and private delivery forms: An Application to the waste collection service using order-M data panel frontier analysis

CM Campos-Alba, EJ De la Higuera-Molina… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Many studies have been undertaken to determine whether waste collection services are
provided more efficiently by private or by public management. To date, however, the findings …