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Measuring Government Activity
OECD on
April 14th 2009
The size and the economic significance of the public sector make it a major contributor to economic growth and social welfare. The goods and services government provides, its redistributive and regulatory powers, and how those are exercised affect the way business is conducted and people live their lives in every country. Citizens are entitled to understand how government works and how public revenues are used. This book provides a significant contribution to developing a coherent, reliable system for data collection and analysis. It 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.
Topics in this document
Audit
Economy
Education
Policy
Inflation
Best practice
Output (economics)
Evaluation
System of National Accounts
Unemployment
Information
OECD
Economic growth
Common Assessment Framework
Gross domestic product
Benchmarking
Programme for International Student Assessment
Risk
Governance
Accountability
Productivity
Economics
Contract
Health
National Audit Office (United Kingdom)
Deficit spending
Budget
Market (economics)
Employment
Financial audit
Citations
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