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Author Kapsoli, Javier, author.

Title Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers
Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (27 pages)
Series IMF Working Paper ; WP/17/197
IMF working paper ; WP/17/197.
Contents Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Benchmarking Methodology; III. Social Spending Trends; IV. Empirical Results; V. Implications and Policy Recommendations; References; Figures; 1. Technical and Allocative Efficiency; 2. Social Spending Trends; 3. Selected Inputs and Outputs for Social Spending; 4. Benchmarking Social Spending Results; 5. Selected Inputs and Outputs Comparisons; 6. Education Spending in Central America by Level of Education; Boxes; 1. Main Drivers of Social Spending; Appendixes; I. Appendix
Summary Developing and low-income economies face the challenge of increasing public spending to address sizeable infrastructure and social gaps while simultaneously restoring the fiscal discipline weakened to countervail the effect of the global recession. Increasing the efficiency of social spending could be the key policy to address the dilemma as it allows the optimization of the existing resources by reducing spending inefficiencies. This paper quantifies the efficiency gap in the health and education sectors for a large sample of developing and emerging countries and proposes measures to reduce these gaps for the specific cases of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
Notes Print version record
Subject Government Expenditures And Education.
Government Policy.
Government Expenditures And Health.
Caribbean.
Form Electronic book
Author Ruxandra Teodoru, Iulia, author
ISBN 9781484318492
1484318498
1484315308
9781484315309