Measuring Government Activity

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264060782
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Government Activity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises the available OECD and other international data on public sector inputs and processes. It also examines the existing internationally comparable data on outputs and outcomes, and recommends new approaches to measurement.

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102965360
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking the measure of government performance written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good performance measurement frameworks show taxpayers what they are getting for their money and enable the Government to assess whether it is achieving its key objectives cost-effectively. In its final review of the quality of the data systems used by government departments to measure progress against Public Service Agreements (PSAs), the NAO concludes that the PSA framework provided a clear focus on the objectives that mattered for the then Government, and had gradually improved. The quality of data systems and of disclosures about measurement policies has risen: 58 per cent of PSA data systems, under 2007's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07), were fit for purpose, up from 30 per cent under the 2002 Spending Review. The NAO notes, however, that a third of CSR07 systems needed strengthening to improve controls or transparency and 10 per cent of systems were not fit for purpose. PSAs became progressively more focused on key priorities, and more clearly stated however they generally did not make clear the extent to which outcomes were the result of government activity. And financial information has been poorly linked with PSA indicators. The apportionment of annual departmental expenditure was not broken down by the indicators used to report progress and did not facilitate more in-depth analysis of the cost of progress. This hinders strategic decision-making because it is not clear what allocation of available resources could achieve the best overall results. The ability to link financial and performance information is particularly significant at a time when public sector budgets face severe cuts.

Author : Donald M. Disk
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity written by Donald M. Disk and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813651
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Organisations Measure Success written by Neil Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. How Organisations Measure Success analyses existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative and its apotheosis in the 1990s Next Steps Initiative. How Organisations Measure Success reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and will be of great interest to students of social policy and public administration as well as professionals working in government and public sector management.

Author : Donald M. Fisk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Productivity in State and Local Government written by Donald M. Fisk and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of the Budget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Productivity of Federal Government Organizations written by United States. Bureau of the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey and 5 case studies on the measurement of productivity in the federal public services of USA. Research methods.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309061350
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring the Government Sector of the U.S. Economic Accounts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-07-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of the Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The focus of the workshop was on revising the presentation of the government sector in the U.S. economic accounts to bring it more into line with the international System of National Accounts (SNA) and current data collection capability, to enhance information about the public sector, and to make the U.S. accounts more comparable to those of other countries.

Author : Louis M. Imbeau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134924533X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparing Government Activity written by Louis M. Imbeau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative analysis of government activity raises many methodological, theoretical and substantive problems. In this volume authors drawn from varied subfields of political science address some of these problems, including: the usefulness of expenditure data, case interdependence, the issue of non-decision, the measurement of the distribution of power through laws, methodological individualism, cultural explanations, politico-economic interactions, the usefulness of textual analysis and issues of accumulation and aggregation.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 145196711X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Contingent Liabilities and the Measurement of Fiscal Impact written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional fiscal accounting methodologies do not appropriately account for governments’ noncash policies, such as their contingent liabilities. When these liabilities are called, budget costs can be large, as evidenced by the United States’ saving and loan crisis. In general, deficit measures may underestimate the macroeconomic impact of government policies, promoting the substitution of noncash for cash expenditure and increasing future financing requirements. The paper describes extended deficit measures to address the problem, but notes their limited practical value. Nonetheless, some alternative methods of valuing contingent liabilities are proposed to gauge fiscal impact and facilitate budgetary control.