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The Role of State Intervention in the Financial Sector: Crisis Prevention, Containment, and Resolution
Cho, Yoon Je - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper discusses the role of state intervention for prevention, containment, and resolution of financial crises based mainly on the Korean experience during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Crises in emerging market and developing economies tend to be more complicated than those faced by...
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Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence on Health: Selective Evidence from India
Chakraborty, Lekha; Singh, Yadawendra; Jacob, Jannet - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945220
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World Social Protection Report 2014/15 - Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This ILO flagship report: (i) provides a global overview of the organisation of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security; (ii) following a life-cycle approach, presents social protection for children, for women and men of working...
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Reprioritisation of Public Expenditure for Human Development
Sen, Tapas K.; Karmakar, Krishanu - eSocialSciences - 2008
An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls in particular areas. Such reprioritisation should also lead the states to a better macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341702
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Integrated Financial MIS for Local Government Public Expenditure Management - A Case Study of Khajane in Karnataka
S, Sandeep M - eSocialSciences - 2011
Expenditure Management is critical to effective public service delivery, especially at the local government level. Leveraging on information systems to aid in expenditure management is viewed as an effective method in bringing about transparency and accountability in this process. Past research...
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Aam Admi Budget Bypasses India’s Children
H, Juhi - eSocialSciences - 2009
Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
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Financing Strategy for Achievement of the MDGs and Implementation of the Tenth Five Year Plan
Rao, M. Govinda; Seth, Anuradha; Rinzin, Chewang - eSocialSciences - 2009
This report presents an analysis of the strategy required to generate the required resources for investment in various services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fiscal space to finance the MDGs and identify the necessary fiscal reforms required to finance the...
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Public Expenditure on Education : A Review of Selected Issues and Evidence
Mukherjee, Anit N - eSocialSciences - 2007
The role of education in economic development has been recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature. Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is the rationale for intervention by the state in ensuring equity in opportunity across the population....
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UID and Public Health: Specious Claims
Rao, Mohan - eSocialSciences - 2011
Among the many reasons cited for India to proceed ahead with the Unique Identification (UID) project -that it will … targets in social sector schemes - the most specious is perhaps the claim that it will help India reach her public health … Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). http://newsclick.in/india/uid-and-public-health-specious-claims …
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Fiscal Policy in a Growth Framework
Gemmell, Norman - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for...
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