Public Expenditure in Latin America : Trends and Key Policy Issues /

This paper examines trends in government spending in Latin America from the mid-1990s to 2006. It also examines key policy issues, including the cyclicality of spending, public investment, public employment, and social expenditures. It finds that primary expenditures have trended upward for the past...

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主要作者: Clements, Benedict
其他作者: Faircloth, Christopher, Verhoeven, Marijn
格式: 杂志
语言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
丛编:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/021
在线阅读:Full text available on IMF
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总结:This paper examines trends in government spending in Latin America from the mid-1990s to 2006. It also examines key policy issues, including the cyclicality of spending, public investment, public employment, and social expenditures. It finds that primary expenditures have trended upward for the past ten years as a share of GDP, driven by increases in current spending, in particular for social expenditures. Fluctuations in real spending have continued to follow a procyclical pattern. The paper finds that there is substantial scope to improve the efficiency of public investment, public employment, and social spending.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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