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

• Autore: Thomas Alun
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (20 p.)
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Guyana
• 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.: 9910788409703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/180