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Measuring Government Expenditure Efficiencies Towards Peace and Human Development
Author(s) -
Ahmad Danu Prasetyo,
Alpha Nur Setyawan Pudjono
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the asian journal of technology management (ajtm)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2089-791X
pISSN - 1978-6956
DOI - 10.12695/ajtm.2013.6.2.3
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , government expenditure , human development index , malmquist index , frontier , index (typography) , government (linguistics) , sample (material) , economics , human development (humanity) , public expenditure , public economics , development economics , economic growth , business , political science , public finance , macroeconomics , statistics , total factor productivity , productivity , mathematics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , world wide web , law
In this paper, we investigate the efficiency level of government expenditure in 82 countries towards the human development and peace index of the respective countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach during 2007-2011. We found that only few countries that always being positioned in the efficient frontier during the sample period, namely: Japan, Nigeria, and Norway. By using Malmquist index approach, we also found that Cyprus has the largest government expenditure efficiency improvement.

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