Efficiency of Social Sector Expenditure in India (Hardcover)

Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty. Hence, budgetary expenditure to be mobilized for such investments needs to be efficiently allocated and utilized to maximize the greatest good. This book focuses on the social sector in India and provides an overview of the sector. The book looks at 15 major Indian states between the year 2000-2011 to see how these states had invested in social sector and whether they had met the criteria of efficient social sector investment. Using stochastic frontier models, the book provides an efficiency norm and making use of this normative estimate, it compares performance across 15 Indian states and suggests important policy implications to improve the future performance of the social sector. The book adopts various quantitative techniques in the analysis and establishes that inefficient and inappropriate allocation of inputs was made in both health and education sectors. The book suggests that such problems and future challenges could be overcome by an appropriate mix of emphasis in different activities. This book will provide insight for those who want to learn more about how to build the capacity of the social sector in more efficient manner by exploring the social sector of India.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Brijesh Purohit
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-73626-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Promotions
LSN:	0-415-73626-9
Barcode:	9780415736268

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