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Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America (Directions in Development)

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Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America (Directions in Development)

Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America (Directions in Development) by Pablo Acosta
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 1464810605 | 149 Pages | PDF | 5 MB

Central America has come a long way in terms of both economic and political stability. The region is increasingly focused on implementing productivity-enhancing reforms as well as supporting reductions in poverty and inequality. Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America analyzes trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of the effectiveness and efficiency of social spending, and discusses the quality of selected institutions influencing this spending. The book examines total social spending and its four components: public spending on education, health, social protection, and labor.
In analyzing public social spending, the book addresses three crucial policy issues: (1) how to improve the coverage and redistributional incidence of public social spending, (2) how to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public social spending, and (3) how to strengthen the institutions governing public spending in the social sector. Although the book is heavily based on a series of recent analytical social spending studies in six countries in the subregion Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama it also takes a broader regional perspective and includes some comparisons to countries in other regions.
Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America will be of particular interest to policy makers, development practitioners, and academics.