Education and Health in G7 Countries : Achieving Better Outcomes with Less Spending /

Enhancing the efficiency of education and health spending is a key policy challenge in G7 countries. The paper assesses this efficiency and seeks to establish a link between differences in efficiency across countries and policy and institutional factors. The findings suggest that reforms aimed at in...

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Autor principal: Gunnarsson, Victoria
Outros Autores: Carcillo, Stephane, Verhoeven, Marijn
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/263
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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