Title: Assessing the performance of the public sector in North African and Middle East countries

Authors: Abdelwalid Rouag; Jan Stejskal

Addresses: Faculty of Economics and Administration, Institute of Economic Sciences, University of Pardubice, Studentska 95, CZ532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic ' Faculty of Economics and Administration, Institute of Economic Sciences, University of Pardubice, Studentska 95, CZ532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic

Abstract: Interest in public sector performance has grown considerably. Because it is connected to public budgets and their rational use, the measurement of public sector performance is an important consideration. Our paper taps into an interest in the North African and Middle East, where recent protests against totalitarian political regimes, a continuous economic decline and a high unemployment rate - especially among the youth - suggest the failure of their public sector. This paper creates a new ranking of MENA countries according to their opportunity and Musgravian indicators. The results point to the existence of four main categories of countries classified by the availability of their natural resources. The paper shows also the recommendation to increasing the public sector efficiency.

Keywords: public sector; performance; MENA region; composite indicator approach; principal component analysis; PCA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2017.085667

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2017 Vol.3 No.3, pp.279 - 296

Received: 17 Nov 2016
Accepted: 14 Mar 2017
Published online: 05 Aug 2017 *

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