There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money …-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on reducing poverty, lowering inequality and unemployment continue to be elusive targets for …

Enhancing the efficiency of education and health spending is a key policy challenge in G7 countries. The paper assesses … addition, lowering student-teacher ratios is associated with reduced efficiency in the education sector, while immunizations … and doctors'' consultations coincide with higher efficiency in the health sector. Greater autonomy for schools seems to …

expenditures, (2) significant share of education relegating the role of health care and (3) higher priority of transfer payments …-restructuring period indicates the shifting of priority from education and health towards transfer payments in the later than the former … social expenditures, higher priority of education and health and reform in the efficiency criteria used for the devolution of …