01772cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017856 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484315309 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Kapsoli, Javier. Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers / Javier Kapsoli, Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Developing and low-income economies face the challenge of increasing public spending to address sizeable infrastructure and social gaps while simultaneously restoring the fiscal discipline weakened to countervail the effect of the global recession. Increasing the efficiency of social spending could be the key policy to address the dilemma as it allows the optimization of the existing resources by reducing spending inefficiencies. This paper quantifies the efficiency gap in the health and education sectors for a large sample of developing and emerging countries and proposes measures to reduce these gaps for the specific cases of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Mode of access: Internet Ruxandra Teodoru, Iulia. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/197 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/197/001.2017.issue-197-en.xml IMF e-Library