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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...

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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...

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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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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

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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 …

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Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: Pre- and Post-Maastricht

Kamps, Christophe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

Based on a panel data model this paper investigates whether the effects of fiscal policy on national saving in Europe have changed after the Maastricht Treaty came into force. Recently Giavazzi, Jappelli and Pagano (2000) found evidence that national saving responds nonlinearly to fiscal policy...

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Germany's Social Security System under Strain

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

Germany'’s social security system is surveyed, its benefits and contributions are discussed. The expansion of this system in the last decades is described, its impact on employment and growth is studied and proposals for the reform of the system are discussed.

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Immigration and Public Spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella; Schumacher, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper aims to shed light on the role of the ’ideology’ of political parties in shaping the evolution of the welfare state in 18 developed democracies, by providing empirical findings on the determinants of social programs entitlements and social spending over the period 1981-1999. The...

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