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Empirical Determinants of Government Efficiency - Exploring the Data

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  • Francisca Guedes de Oliveira

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    This paper is concerned with two things: finding an objective and easily quantifiable measure of government efficiency and testing possible determinants of such quality. As measures of government efficiency we use the ratios of infant mortality rate to health expenditures as a percentage of GDP and the ratios of drop out and illiteracy rates to education expenditures as a percentage of GDP. We assume that government efficiency in providing health and education services depends on economic, political and cultural factors.

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    Paper provided by Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto) in its series Working Papers de Economia (Economics Working Papers) with number 18.

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    Length: 18 pages
    Date of creation: Nov 2007
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    Handle: RePEc:cap:wpaper:182007

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    Keywords: Government Efficiency; OLS regression; Government output;

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