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Quality of Government and Living Standards
Francesco GrigoliMr.Eduardo Ley
其他書名
Adjusting for the Efficiency of Public Spending
出版International Monetary Fund, 2012-07-01
主題Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics
ISBN14755053029781475505306
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XlUZEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋It is generally acknowledged that the government’s output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government activities (i.e., same output could be achieved with less inputs), implying that inputs are not a good approximation for outputs. If taken seriously, the next logical step is to purge from GDP the fraction of government inputs that is wasted. As differences in the quality of the public sector have a direct impact on citizens’ effective consumption of public and private goods and services, we must take them into account when computing a measure of living standards. We illustrate such a correction computing corrected per capita GDPs on the basis of two studies that estimate efficiency scores for several dimensions of government activities. We show that the correction could be significant, and rankings of living standards could be re-ordered as a result.