Quality of Government and Living Standards

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Quality of Government and Living Standards

dc.contributor.author	Grigoli, Francesco
dc.contributor.author	Ley, Eduardo
dc.date.accessioned	2014-02-18T22:43:23Z
dc.date.available	2014-02-18T22:43:23Z
dc.date.issued	2012-09
dc.description.abstract	It is generally acknowledged that a government's output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution adopted by national accounts systems is to equate output value to input costs, but well-documented inefficiencies in government activities make this approximation questionable. One solution is to purge from gross domestic product (GDP) the fraction of government inputs that is wasted. This note illustrates such a correction, computing corrected per capita GDP on the basis of two studies that estimate efficiency scores for several dimensions of government activities. Results show that the correction could be significant and reorder the rankings of living standards.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16750755/quality-government-living-standards
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/17093
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17093
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Economic premise;no. 89
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	ABSENTEEISM
dc.subject	ACCOUNTING
dc.subject	COL
dc.subject	CONSUMERS
dc.subject	COUNTRY COMPARISONS
dc.subject	DEBT
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	ECONOMIC RESEARCH
dc.subject	EXCHANGE RATES
dc.subject	FISCAL POLICY
dc.subject	GDP
dc.subject	GDP PER CAPITA
dc.subject	GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
dc.subject	HEALTH CARE
dc.subject	HEALTH SPENDING
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	INCOME
dc.subject	INCOME GROUPS
dc.subject	INEFFICIENCY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INFLATION
dc.subject	INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subject	LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	NATIONAL INCOME
dc.subject	NET INCOME
dc.subject	OUTPUT INDICATORS
dc.subject	OUTPUTS
dc.subject	POSITIVE EFFECTS
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	PRODUCTION FUNCTION
dc.subject	PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	PUBLIC
dc.subject	PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
dc.subject	PUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subject	PUBLIC RESOURCES
dc.subject	PUBLIC SECTOR
dc.subject	PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY
dc.subject	PUBLIC SPENDING
dc.subject	QUALITY OF LIFE
dc.subject	VALUE ADDED
dc.subject	WASTE
dc.subject	WEALTH
dc.subject	WORKERS
dc.title	Quality of Government and Living Standards	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Jobs
okr.date.disclosure	2012-09-19
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-29T09:53:12.219647Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Brief
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16750755/quality-government-living-standards
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Governance
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid	149401468157198553
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	000386194_20120920023710
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	16750755
okr.identifier.report	72719
okr.language.supported	en
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okr.topic	Public Sector Economics
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Impact Evaluation
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topic	Health Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic	Economic Theory and Research
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Public Sector Development
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.unit	Econ. Policy & Debt Dept (PRMED)
okr.volume	1 of 1