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Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers

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  • Mr. Javier Kapsoli
  • Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru

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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 be the key policy to address the dilemma as it allows the optimization of the existing resources by reducing spending inefficiencies. This paper quantifies the efficiency gap in the health and education sectors for a large sample of developing and emerging countries and proposes measures to reduce these gaps for the specific cases of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

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  • Mr. Javier Kapsoli & Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru, 2017. "Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers," IMF Working Papers 2017/197, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2017/197
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    1. Keller, Michael, 2020. "Wasted windfalls: Inefficiencies in health care spending in oil rich countries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    2. Hui Jin & La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul & Baoping Shang, 2019. "Improving the Efficiency and Equity of Public Education Spending: The Case of Moldova," IMF Working Papers 2019/042, International Monetary Fund.
    3. Mrs. Esther Perez Ruiz & Mauricio Soto, 2019. "Attaining Selected Sustainable Development Goals in Guatemala: Spending, Provision, and Financing Needs," IMF Working Papers 2019/060, International Monetary Fund.
    4. de Andrés Sánchez, Jorge & Belzunegui Eraso, Ángel Gabriel & Valls Fonayet, Francesc, 2020. "Evaluación de la eficiencia del gasto social en los países EU15 con análisis envolvente de datos y métodos cluster borrosos || Evaluation of the efficiency of social spending in EU15 countries with da," Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa = Journal of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, vol. 30(1), pages 97-116, December.
    5. Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez & Angel Belzunegui-Eraso & Francesc Valls-Fonayet, 2021. "Assessing Efficiency of Public Poverty Policies in UE-28 with Linguistic Variables and Fuzzy Correlation Measures," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-25, January.

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