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Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Greenstein, Joshua - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011
MDGs are global goals and are powerful tools of international policy because they create a framework of accountability by going beyond stating general objectives and set quantitative, time bound targets against which performance can be measured. This paper challenges the methodology...
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Measuring and Explaining Country Efficiency in Improving Health and Education Indicators
Jayasuriya, Ruwan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Governments aiming to improve the education and health status of their populations can increase the level of public spending allocated to these sectors, or improve the efficiency of public spending. Since increasing spending is often difficult due to the limited tax base of most developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992051
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Causal Inference and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Assessing Whether There Was an Acceleration in MDG Development Indicators Following the MDG Declaration
Friedman, Howard Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Background: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of eight goals and corresponding indicators that were agreed to following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000 by leaders of 189 countries. The goals state specific objectives for the world to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109667
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The Case of Mexico's 1995 Peso Crisis and Argentina's 2002 Convertibility Crisis
Pereznieto, Paola - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2010
Argentina and explore the policy measures that were put in place to mitigate their impact on the economy and more importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901979
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Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Leontief zárt dinamikus modellje. Megoldások és értelmezések
Bródy, András - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … LI (2004) 10, pp. 924-935
A zárt (homogén) dinamikus modell egyensúlyi megoldásának három módszerét ismertetem. Mindhárom megoldás azonos növekedési rátához, valamint egyazon árés mennyiségi arányokhoz vezet. A folyó és tőkeráfordítási együtthatók adataival végzett eltérő műveletek miatt...
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Is Germany Stronger, Smarter, or Slyer?
Marco, Fortis - In: Economia politica (2014) 1, pp. 3-10
This Focus raises a question: during the crisis, has Germany been stronger, smarter or slyer? And if the answer is the second, have some other European countries been cheated? Germans think they madea big sacrifice by going into the single currency. But the reality is different. Between 1999 and...
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Endogenous altruism, redistribution, and long term care
Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013
This paper studies public provision of long term care insurance in a world in which family assistance is (i) uncertain and (ii) endogenous depending on the time parents spend raising their children. Public benefits will be paid in case of disability but cannot be combined with self-insurance or...
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Means-tested long term care and family transfers
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2014
One of the pervasive problems with means-tested public long term care (LTC) programs is their inability to prevent individuals who could a¤ord private long term services from taking advantage of public care. They often manage to elude the means-test net through strategic impoverishment. We show...
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