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Government Expenditure on Health in Lao PDR : Overall Trends and Findings from a Health Center Survey
World Bank Group - 2016
This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR …), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summarizes overall trends in health outcomes and government health … financing over 2000-2014 and analyzes trends in planned and realized government budgetary health spending data covering fiscal …
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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger
Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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Beyond the S-curve : insurance penetration, institutional quality and financial market development
Giné, Xavier; Ribeiro, Bernardo; Wrede, Peter - 2019
insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …
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The use of data analytics techniques to assess the functioning of a government’s financial management information system : an application to Pakistan and Cambodia
Hashim, Ali; Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Cole, Winston; … - 2019
Public financial management enablesgovernment to implement policy. Financial management information systems are a central element of PFM in that they facilitate government financial transactions and subject them to rigorous budgetary controls. Therefore, the adequate use of FMIS systems supports...
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Hitting the trillion mark : a look at how much countries are spending on infrastructure
Fay, Marianne; Han, Sungmin; Lee, Hyoung Il; Mastruzzi, … - 2019
The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed capital formation from national accounts system...
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Balancing control and flexibility in public expenditure management : using banking sector innovations for improved expenditure control and effective service delivery
Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Hashim, Ali; Farooq, Khuram - 2019
The control protocols that underlie public expenditure management have direct implications for a government's ability to pursue fiscal discipline and service delivery objectives. The literature recognizes the inherent challenge in balancing control with flexibility and that these two objectives...
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Domestic government spending on human capital : a cross-country analysis of recent trends
Andrews, Kathryn; Avitabile, Ciro; Gatti, Roberta - 2019
sectors of health, education, and social protection has proven to be a challenging task. Only for health spending is there … has seen a stable and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly …
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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia
Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020
Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...
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Quality education and the efficiency of public expenditure : a cross-country comparative analysis
Miningou, Elise Wendlassida - 2019
Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and considerable public resources have been dedicated to achieving this goal. However, one could wonder whether increasing public education expenditure would drive better access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168007
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Fiscal incidence in Ukraine : a commitment to equity analysis
Bornukova, Kateryna; Leshchenko, Nataliia; Matycin, … - 2019
The paper employs the Commitment to Equity framework to present a first attempt at a comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis for Ukraine, encompassing the revenue and expenditures components of the fiscal system, including direct and indirect taxes, as well as direct, indirect, and in-kind...
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