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- Title
Efficiency of subnational government expenditure towards elementary education and nutrition: Bootstrap data envelopment analysis for India.
- Authors
Dixit, Vikas; Singh, Jyoti; Sardar, Satchidananda
- Abstract
The need of translating increasing outlays into better outcomes on various public programmes has attracted the attention of researchers worldwide to focus more on the quality of public spending, often assessed in terms of its efficiency. The present article is a contribution to the existing literature on the subject in that it assesses the efficiency of government expenditure of Indian states for two most basic social services—elementary education and nutrition during 2014–2015 and 2018–2019 using data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity index techniques, in both input‐oriented as well as output‐oriented settings under variable returns to scale assumption; it constructs the average performance index for children at elementary education and malnutrition index for women and children to utilise them as output indicators; and it adopts a robust bootstrap truncated regression procedure to avoid various econometric issues while estimating the impact of selected environmental factors on bias‐corrected inefficiency scores. The major findings of this article seem to suggest that, while states should be provided greater flexibility in their fiscal operations, they have to complement their fiscal autonomy with good governance to improve the efficiency of their spending on basic social services. Towards this end, states like Bihar, Jharkhand and those belonging to North‐Eastern and Himalayan regions need special attention with a different set of development policies.
- Subjects
JHARKHAND (India); BIHAR (India); DATA envelopment analysis; SUBNATIONAL governments; PUBLIC spending; NUTRITION education; ELEMENTARY education; INDUSTRIAL efficiency
- Publication
Journal of Public Affairs (14723891), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-3891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pa.2884