Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs … and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may … not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency of this spending is low. This paper quantifies the inefficiency …

linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of education and health capital, and thus can lead …

This paper studies the cyclical behavior of public spending on health and education in 150 countries during 1987 - 2007 …. It finds that spending on education and health is procyclical in developing countries and acyclical in developed … countries. In addition, education and health expenditures follow an asymmetric pattern in developing countries; they are …

incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in … paper finds, among other things, that overall education and health spending are poorly targeted; benefits from primary … education and primary health care go disproportionately to the middle class, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIPCs and …

developing countries. The paper finds that the traded-nontraded productivity differential is a significant determinant of the …

from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …