Format:
Online-Ressource (53 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1451845367
,
9781451845365
Series Statement:
IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 02/35
Content:
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 spending on education and health. The relationship is robust to controlling for a variety of factors and the estimated magnitudes suggest that an increase from the lowest to the highest rating for democracy for a country is associated with approximately 1 percent more central government spending and 3 percent more general government spending in social sectors, as a percent of GDP
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Baqir, Reza Social Sector Spending in a Panel of Countries Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002 ISBN 9781451845365
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5089/9781451845365.001
