Propuesta de un mecanismo de medición de las variables que afectan la eficiencia de las instituciones públicas encargadas de generar bienestar social: Caso Venezuela

the research has for object to develop a mechanism of measurement that allows to answer to a question that all organized society does to herself constant. are the economic resources of the state well administered for the generation of social well-being? the methodology consists of the selection of a series of socioeconomic variables that allow to measure the efficiency and the productivity of the venezuelan state in the administration of his internal brute product, public and social expenditure, for the generation of employment, literacy, increase of the life expectancy, decrease of the level of poverty, etc. the tool used for the determination of the efficiency is the data envelopment analysis (dea), whereas for the productivity is malmquist's index. the percentage of inefficiency obtained was established as a quantification of the set of vices (corruption, bureaucracy, etc) that concern to the public institutions established for to generate social well-being. the contribution to the knowledge of this work takes root in that used method allows a real measure of the vices and not a simple perception of the same ones, a analysis of sensibility of the dates, a low cost and adjustment high to any period and region that we want to evaluate.