The Efficiency of Government Expenditure : Experiences From Africa /

This paper assesses the efficiency of government expenditure on education and health in 38 countries in Africa in 1984-95, both in relation to each other and compared with countries in Asia and the Western Hemisphere. The results show that, on average, countries in Africa are less efficient than cou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Honjo, Keiko
Other Authors: Gupta, Sanjeev, Verhoeven, Marijn
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/153
Online Access:Full text available on IMF