Public Services Management Efficiency from the Perspective of the Adaptability Degree in the Field of Public Utilities

Abstract

The present research proposes an analysis of the efficiency of public waste management services, considering the determination of the technical and allocative efficiency of some administrative units in the county of Galați, with responsibilities in this respect. The empirical analysis presupposed the collection of a relevant data set from 2018 in point of: number of households, collection ratio, fee/inhabitant/month, surface and average waste amount generated per year (tons). Considering the analysis at the level of 2018 has the argument the fact that 2018 was the final year when the management of the waste services was the responsibility of the local public administration, as in 2019 the transfer of inventory and competence regarding the waste management service was made from the administrative units to the association of Waste Intercommunity Development Galați. In the present research we resorted to the Data Envelopment Analysis, the CCR model oriented towards input data, as it represents a robust tool for the comparative analysis technique. The results of this analysis are relevant, as it confers municipalities a support to evaluate the efficiency of waste collection programs at the level of each administrative unit under analysis, so that to generate solutions to increase the efficiency of waste collection systems.

Keywords

• waste management
• public sector
• data envelopment analysis