Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

expenditures on the marginal productivity of agricultural inputs. Increasing agricultural productivity is often advocated as a way … direct and indirect impacts of district-level health and education expenditures on marginal productivities of agricultural … social outcomes and social expenditures and point to the importance of these outcomes in productivity. Marginal …

heterogeneity. All nutrients exhibit positive expenditure elasticities in both rural and urban areas; however, as expected, the … expenditure elasticities of all nutrients are higher in urban areas than in rural areas. In rural areas, strategies to improve …

allow developing countries to improve the management of public expenditures so as to raise the chances of meeting the income … growth and poverty reduction; (4) laid out the theory for the measurement of the degree of convergence of public expenditures … single-score concept, (b) the evaluation of the quality and efficiency of public expenditures in social services sectors in …

such as expenditures or income. Nonetheless, little work has empirically compared poverty measurements based on assets and … expenditures. This paper uses panel data from Ethiopia to generate an asset-based poverty classification scheme. Regression results …

have been brought together in a new book, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries …

-responsive budgeting has made significant headway into economic policy, taxation has lagged behind. Because tax policy is the most … debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … taxation policies in the Middle East and North Africa region have changed over the last decade and may undergo significant …

This paper is part of four country case studies that take a detailed look at public expenditures in agriculture, and at … how the data on expenditures are captured in government financial and budget accounts. The objective of these studies is … to unpack the black box of public expenditure statistics reported in various cross-country datasets, and ultimately to …