High-performance public services: influences and prospects for improving living standards

Abstract

The issue of improving people's livelihoods has been a primary concern of democratic governments. People's livelihoods can be analyzed not only from the perspective of income obtained, but also from the perspective of the conditions it has, access to quality services. Although material conditions dictate the ability of people to turn resources into good living conditions and are those that allow us to estimate a person's ability to have a better standard of living, yet only with his own efforts, he could not create a living. decent. In order to develop harmoniously, people still need to benefit from the goods and achievements of civilization, those that governments make available to them: access to quality health services, education and training, technical and scientific progress, services in the field of service, etc., without which the free development of the human personality would not be achieved. In this context, the subject in question is current and of major importance. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the contribution that public services have to raising the living standards of citizens. As research methods in the paper were used: analytical method; synthesis method; comparative method, method of document analysis and statistical data, etc. CZU: 351.84:330.59; JEL: H40; I31.