Public sector productivity: measurement challenges, performance information and prospects for improvement

Dunleavy, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-6398 (2017) Public sector productivity: measurement challenges, performance information and prospects for improvement. OECD Journal on Budgeting, 17 (1). pp. 1-28. ISSN 1608-7143

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Improving productivity at the organisational level offers the greatest immediate dividends and could successfully cover the largest departments and agencies at the central or national level. For many decades the measurement of government outputs in national statistics and economic accounts used inputs, which assumes that government productivity neither grows nor falls. Modern solutions exist however, that can generate empirically useful metrics of total outputs from which stakeholders could learn key lessons about the productivity of their agencies over time. This article outlines the tools needed to apply these modern solutions and offers recommendations for improving cross-national productivity data for government

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/oecd-journ...
Additional Information:	© 2017 OECD
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
JEL classification:	H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H10 - General H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government H - Public Economics > H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents > H30 - General
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2018 10:40
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 15:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87207

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