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This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence …
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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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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...
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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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Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
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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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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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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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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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The Scheduled Castes form 16 percent of the population yet their issues have largely remained silent. It’s high time to bring into line the discord between election commitments and budgetary allocations for the backward sections
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