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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788409703321

Autore

Thomas Alun

Titolo

Do Debt-Service Savings and Grants Boost Social Expenditures? / / Alun Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-3264-1

1-4527-2794-5

1-283-51330-7

9786613825759

1-4519-8814-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (20 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Debt relief - Developing countries

Social security - Developing countries

Budgeting

Public Finance

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

National Government Expenditures and Education

National Government Expenditures and Health

National Budget

Budget Systems

Health: General

Public finance & taxation

Budgeting & financial management

Health economics

Expenditure

Education spending

Health care spending

Budget planning and preparation

Health

Expenditures, Public

Budget

Guyana

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DATA SAMPLE""; ""III. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS""; ""IV. LIKELIHOOD OF ACHIEVING THE MDG TARGETS""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper evaluates whether debt relief and grants can boost social expenditures in lowincome countries. It finds that declines in debt-service help raise social expenditures, but no relationship between grants and social expenditures. Moreover, since the mid-1980s, lowincome countries have managed to fully insulate social expenditures from the effects of budgetary tightening. The magnitude of the impact of these effects on social expenditures, however, is dwarfed by the resources needed to enable these countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals.