The research proposed within this project targets the public sector performance measurement. This will be made, on the one hand, by using the results existing in the specialty literature as lessons, experiences from which good practices may be extracted and, on the other hand, by analyzing this concept in the European Union countries.
In a globalized economy, the EU has begun a self-defining and self-asserting process and has created a single currency with the help of which, for the purpose of this work, we can group the EU countries, in a first stage into the Euro zone (Austria, Belgium Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain) and Non Euro (Denmark, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria).
The second stage involves the division of the European Union taking into account the geographical and geopolitical position in order to analyze the performance of the member states, as follows: Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Cyprus, Greece) and Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, UK, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal).
Furthermore, the analysis of the public sector performance will be taking into account the productivity, yield and efficiency. This analysis may identify the reason why the economies react and grow differently with the purpose of generating conclusions which may be used by the political decision makers.