Evaluating the delivery performance of public spending programs from an efficiency perspectiveNikos Pettas and Ioannis Giannikos Evaluation and Program Planning, 2014, vol. 45, issue C, 140-150 Abstract: There is increasing recognition that performance evaluation of national as well as foreign public economic development programs should emphasize on their implementation rather than focus solely on their outcomes. This paper presents a framework for comparing the delivery or administrative efficiency of public spending programs at local level, based on a novel application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It is focused on the European Union context and specifically on the Greek LEADER operational program. The results of this application indicate that DEA, in contrast to traditional performance metrics, is an insightful tool in revealing administrative inefficiencies in program delivery by capturing the operational and scale components of performance while taking into account the complex mix of tasks and interventions carried out by its operators. The proposed technique may be easily integrated into a program evaluation scheme and may be utilized as a tool to support rational decision-making and program improvement. Keywords: Public policy implementation; Performance measurement; Performance management; EU LEADER; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:epplan:v:45:y:2014:i:c:p:140-150 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.03.007 Access Statistics for this article Evaluation and Program Planning is currently edited by Jonathan A. Morell More articles in Evaluation and Program Planning from Elsevier |
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