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substantial increase in government spending efficiency allowing for receiving higher social returns for money spent. -- CGE model …
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This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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, agriculture, and ecosystem conservation, among others. Furthermore, climate action is closely linked to social spending since … social conditions such as poverty, inequality, and lack of access to basic health services exacerbate vulnerability to … social institutions. We find that responding to the climate crisis requires annual spending on the provision of …
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principle for its population, assuring economic and social prosperity. The new path stresses the value of achieving - what we … levels of employment, well-being of its citizens, social inclusion, resilience of ecological systems and a significant …
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We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the … receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare … relative income. In a utilitarian manner, we combine the social welfare functions of the countries into a global social welfare …
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We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the … receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare … relative income. In a utilitarian manner, we combine the social welfare functions of the countries into a global social welfare …
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We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits the international community to support the modernisation and strengthening of national statistical capacities and systems in developing countries and to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated...
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families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …
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