Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies

Fiseha Gebregziabher and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

No wp-2014-082, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals.

Keywords: Education; Public expenditures; Government spending policy; Public health; Public welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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