Britain’s efficiency trap

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By A. Mc

BRITAIN’s public services present a conundrum. Internationally, they score highly on efficiency measures. Yet some important outcomes in health and education often lag behind other developed countries. In other words, Britain’s Leviathan provides major services at scale and rather cheaply, but struggles to attain reliably high standards and to match the improvement rate of fast-growing economies in Asia and eastern Europe.

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