The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and … education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more …

There is little empirical evidence to support the claim that public spending improves education and health indicators …

relation to economic growth; health and education outcomes; adequacy of social safety nets; and governance. It then assesses …'' productivity and improving governance …

This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such … exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully explained. Rather than look at tax and … spending completely independently, we evaluate net incidence of major programs-such as health care and pensions-to get a more …

growth of countries’ economies and various public finance instruments, such as tax policy, expenditure policy, and overall …

optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the …

education spending, identify sources of inefficiencies and inequality, and formulate potential reform options. The analytical … survey data-and can provide important insights into diagnosing and reforming education systems. The analysis finds … significant scope to improve both efficiency and equity of the education sector in Moldova. Potential reform measures include …

alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that … affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures that affect productivity. The paper finds that social expenditures lead … expenditure composition; and improving the productivity of fiscal expenditure is both growth and welfare enhancing …