Efficiency

The economic problem concerns the allocation of limited resources amongst unlimited wants. It involves asking the questions 'what to produce?', 'how to produce?' and 'for whom to produce?'. Read [|this] article about the Building the Education Revolution (BER) program and try to identify the ways in which, according to the article, the BER performed poorly in allocating scarce resources wisely. Can you categorise these shortcomings under the headings 'what to produce', 'how to produce' and 'for whom to produce'? (Hint: Putting something in the final category might require some lateral thinking!)