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Radial Measures Of Public Services Deficit For Regional Allocation Of Public Funds (1999)
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@MISC{Puig-junoy99radialmeasures,
author = {Jaume Puig-junoy},
title = {Radial Measures Of Public Services Deficit For Regional Allocation Of Public Funds},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to present an optimal resource allocation model for the regional allocation of public service inputs. The proposed solution leads to maximise the relative public service availability in regions located below the best availability frontier, subject to exogenous budget restrictions and equality of access for equal need criteria (equity-based notion of regional needs). The construction of non-parametric deficit indicators is proposed for public service availability by a novel application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, whose results offer advantages for the evaluation and improvement of decentralised public resource allocation systems. The method introduced in this paper has relevance as a resource allocation guide for the majority of services centrally funded by the public sector in a given country, such as health care, basic and higher education, citizen safety, justice, transportation, environmental protection, leisure, culture, housing and city pla...
Keyphrases
regional allocation radial measure public service deficit public fund optimal resource allocation model public service availability equity-based notion citizen safety city pla data envelopment analysis decentralised public resource allocation system exogenous budget restriction public service input regional need resource allocation guide environmental protection availability frontier equal need criterion non-parametric deficit indicator health care novel application relative public service availability public sector
