A Comparative Analysis of Government Social Spending Indicators and Their Correlation with Social Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa /

This paper analyzes trends in social indicators in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and their correlation with the three most widely used scaled measures of government social spending: in per capita terms, as a percentage of GDP, and as a percentage of total government expenditure. On the basis of a regiona...

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Autor principal: Lopes, Paulo
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/176
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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