. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary …

) achievement. We first demonstrate that average MDG progress is likely to be too slow to meet the education and health sector … of demand- versus supply-side factors in social service utilization in education and health. The main policy conclusions … access to basic health services, in particular to vaccination, has been a key factor in reducing child mortality rates in a …

This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health … political crisis in 2010. Despite these crisis conditions, public health expenditures have increased substantially. In education …-term is going to be difficult, so efficiency-oriented reforms need to be implemented in health care and especially in …

. Before the crisis, the governments of these countries were substantially increasing spending on education and health. The … crisis, despite the fiscal constraints, public education and health expenditures have mostly been maintained or increased in …

sectors. The impact of the financial crisis on the delivery of education and health services appeared to be delayed and was …