Correlation between the number of government workers and efficiency (Source: The Economist)
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Correlation between the number of government workers and efficiency (Source: The Economist)
Posted by Free-Minimum-5844
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Is there a version of this where you can see all the countries plotted.
I wanna see where Brasil lands on this.
Feels like the causality may be screwy here. More successful governments are able to have more public sector workers.
What does this look like if you only exclude, say, the bottom quartile in terms of wealth?
Singapore , an extreme outlier in many metrics
it should also be about the opportunity cost, yes more people = more effectiveness, but is it more effective than if these people had been employed in the private sector instead?
Seems instrumental. A richer society is more complex which requires more bureaucrats to administer its public functions.
That doesn’t mean a more complex society is richer
That’s silly, this is near identical to taking the share of healthcare and education workers per country vs the economic freedom index.
They are correlated due to both of those being caused by higher per capita gdp.
doesn’t this just confirm that more government worker is bad
the x axis is log scaled, meaning the return on efficiency is logarithmically diminishing