Incomplete Market:the Dilemma of Government Purchase Rural Public Services and its Cracking Path
In the context of service-oriented government construction and rural revitalization,government purchase of services is a new direction of rural public service provision,emphasizing the use of market mechanisms to provide public services.There is a"market failure"dilemma in the purchase of rural public services by the government,and the thesis explains the dilemma of rural public service outsourcing and its cracking path from the perspective of market incompleteness.The study finds that the rural public service market is characterized by diseconomies of scale,lack of services,failure of the competition mechanism and formalization of services,and also induces the consequences of government-business collusion,opportunistic behaviors and formalization of purchasing.The root cause is that rural public services have the attributes of decentralization,intangibility,triviality,territoriality,and low demand,which makes the rural public service market inefficient in operation and even difficult to form.Enhancing the efficiency of rural public service supply needs to give full play to the role of village-level organizations,on the one hand,shrinking the market boundaries,and forming a self-supply model by self-supply of rural public services with weak purchasability by village-level organizations,on the other hand,giving full play to the role of market intermediary of village-level organizations to make up for market deficiencies,and forming a diversified model in which the market,the government,and the farmers are jointly involved.Therefore,to promote the construction of grass-roots service-oriented government,it is necessary to give full consideration to the special characteristics of rural public services,pay attention to the role of village-level organizations,and adopt diversified service models for the supply of rural public goods.
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