Performance creation and measurment in the public sector entities has become a priority in the Romanian public sector. Limited resources, many and different requests for quality services compel the government to have a greater control upon the way of spending public money and providing economy, efficiency and effectiveness services. By this constructive research we define the performance concept, identify the ways of measuring and assessing the degree of performance achievement in the public sector from Romania.

performance, economy, efficiency, effectiveness, audit of performance