Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers /

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...

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Главный автор: Kapsoli, Javier
Другие авторы: Ruxandra Teodoru, Iulia
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/197
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF
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