Elements on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Public Sector

The policy orientation towards sustainable economic development focuses on increasing the efficiency of the public sector in equitable supply of goods and services needed by citizens. Efficiency, an important element of development, is more easily to be highlighted in the private sector than in the public sector, whose activities are directed, firstly, towards covering the needs of citizens, to a greater degree, as much as possible, the allocation of resources being related to supply of goods and services. According to authors, the interpretation of efficiency and effectiveness refers to the relationship between inputs and outputs, between the obtained results and the expected ones, increasing productivity. The study attempts a review of the main theories related to efficiency and effectiveness, the relationship between the two concepts, forms of efficiency encountered in the professional literature, and its characteristics in the public sector parallel to the private sector, finalizing through conclusions and proposals towards increasing efficiency in the public sector