Social Sector Spending in a Panel of Countries /

This paper presents evidence on the political and economic determinants of social sector spending from a panel dataset. The principal finding is that democratization in countries, as measured by within-country variation in subjective indices of democracy, is a significant predictor of government spe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baqir, Reza
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/035
Online Access:Full text available on IMF