The importance of efficiency analysis for improving public services: Editorial to the special issue on “Efficiency and productivity analysis of public services in practice”

International Transactions in Operational Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Abstract Public services around the world face growing demands, limited budgets, and changing populations. As a result, analyzing efficiency is more important than ever. Techniques like data envelopment analysis, stochastic frontier machine learning techniques offer valuable tools for improving how public are managed. This special issue highlights current research on measuring in education, healthcare, finance, real estate, more. It divided into four main areas: new ways to measure efficiency, factors affecting well educational institutions perform, improvements such as health social care, insights businesses use measures. The findings show policy settings, governance, quality all affect we improve efficiency. Moreover, contributions combining traditional methods with innovative can provide better analysis of complex systems long‐term outcomes. Building from papers issue, propose future agenda that encourages collaboration between experts different fields, uses tools, supports evidence‐based service delivery. By connecting theory practical use, this aims operate, making them efficient, fair, based help decision‐makers.

Language: Английский

International differences in educational equity: An assessment using the Benefit of the Doubt model

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102206 - 102206

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский