出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：Understanding how socio-economic conditions and the performance of public sector organisations vary from one place to another is a routine and familiar element of contemporary public policy and debate. How and why are health and education outcomes, for example, so different from one place to another? To what extent are these differences a function of the performance of local authorities, schools or health providers? Which places are suffering most as a result of recession, and in what ways? Which need particular kinds of interventions? When and where does policy have to be tailored to suit specific local circumstances?
