background public district hospitals (pdhs) in tunisia are not operating at full plant capacity and underutilize their operating budget.   methods individual pdhs capacity utilization (cu) is measured for 2000 and 2010 using dual data envelopment analysis (dea) approach with shadow prices input and output restrictions. the cu is estimated for 101 of 105 pdh in 2000 and 94 of 105 pdh in 2010.   ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the public expenditures of states on health care and the participation of states and the Federal District in financing the Unified Health System, better known by the acronym SUS. To develop the research, two targets were used: "to rescue expenses per government source (federal, state and municipal) during the period from 2002 to 2013" and "to rescue resource transfers from ...

This study aimed to examine whether budget goal commitment, psychological capital, and management accounting system were able play a role in mediating the relation between congruence managerial performance public services universities Indonesia. used quantitative survey approach; sample of consisted 82 leaders from State Islamic Universities province East Java, The data analyzed by using causal...

This paper examines the incentives of voters to appoint legislators with different preferences from their own. The paper adopts an underlying legislative bargaining model proposed by Volden and Wiseman (2007) in which legislators with heterogeneous preferences divide a fixed budget between a public good and pork projects (local public goods). We show that voters have an incentive to strategical...

Curitiba, Brazil has become an international model for sustainable development and social regeneration. Its success has been despite a diminutive budget and rather has depended on creative, multi-dimensional solutions that solve multiple problems simultaneously. This paper analyzes Curitiba’s urban parks and public transportation policies in relation to a holistic definition of sustainable deve...