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Public sector efficiency, foreign aid and small island developing states

✍ Scribed by Simon Feeny; Mark Rogers

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 148 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-1748
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1475

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Abstract

This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures and foreign aid at achieving social sector outcomes in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Efficiency is estimated using a Stochastic Production Function (SPF) approach and panel data since 1990. A second stage of the analysis examines the determinants of efficiency. Results indicate that the efficiency of aid and public sectors at improving life expectancy has deteriorated during the 1990s but efficiency at improving school enrolments has increased. Higher levels of governance are associated with higher efficiency. There is also evidence to suggest that efficiency is lower in SIDS, as well as in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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