Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries : Implications for Achieving the MDGs /

Using panel data from 120 developing countries from 1975 to 2000, this paper explores the direct and indirect channels linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health spending have a positive and significant direct impact on...

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Autor principal: Baldacci, Emanuele
Outros Autores: Clements, Benedict, Cui, Larry, Gupta, Sanjeev
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/217
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF