ACT believes that New Zealanders have been let down by successive governments that have retreated from the productivity enhancing reforms put in place during the period 1984-1993. Lower productivity growth over the past decade has seriously damaged New Zealand’s ability to compete in the global talent market, which has been met by a continuing exodus of its own people.
This example text from a political party manifesto is in favour of efficiency in government/administration, for example by restructuring civil service or improving bureaucracy