Do debt-service savings and grants boost social expenditures? / / Alun Thomas

• Autore: Thomas Alun H (Alun Huw)
• Pubblicazione: [Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, Policy Development and Review Dept., c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (20 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Debt relief - Developing countries; Social security - Developing countries
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Do debt-service savings and grants boost social expenditures
• ISBN: 1-4623-3264-1; 1-4527-2794-5; 1-283-51330-7; 9786613825759; 1-4519-8814-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826311403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/180.