Study on the supply efficiency of basic public services in counties in underdeveloped areas——Taking Three Gorges Reservoir Area as an example

Enhancing the supply efficiency of basic public services is helpful to improving people ’s livelihoods. It is an effective way to improve the supply level of basic public services and life quality of residents. Taking 15 counties in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area as examples,the three-stage DEA method is used to calculate the supply efficiency of basic public services in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. The results show that: the overall supply efficiency of basic public services affected by scale efficiency in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area is relatively low,and the low supply efficiency of basic public services could restrain the level and quality of the supply of basic public services. At the same time,it is also influenced by economic development level,financial self-sufficiency,population density,urbanization level and other environmental variables that caused regional heterogeneity in the supply efficiency of basic public services in different counties.