Author/Editor: Victoria Gunnarsson, Stéphane Carcillo, Marijn Verhoeven.

Release Date:November, 2007

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 more...

Author/Editor: Victoria Gunnarsson, Sergio Lugaresi, Marijn Verhoeven.

Release Date:September, 2007

The paper assesses the financial situation of the health sector in the Slovak Republic. It also evaluates the efficiency of health expenditures and service delivery in comparison to the OECD and more...

Author/Editor: Benedict J Clements, Christopher Faircloth, Marijn Verhoeven.

Release Date:February, 2007

This paper examines trends in government spending in Latin America from the mid-1990s to 2006. It also examines key policy issues, including the cyclicality of spending, public investment, public more...

Author/Editor: Annalisa Fedelino, Gerd Schwartz, Marijn Verhoeven.

Release Date:April, 2006

This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill more...

Author/Editor: Marijn Verhoeven, Sanjeev Gupta, Erwin Tiongson.

Release Date:September, 2001

This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor's health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that more...

Author/Editor: Keiko Honjo, Marijn Verhoeven, Sanjeev Gupta.

Release Date:November, 1997

This paper assesses the efficiency of government expenditure on education and health in 38 countries in Africa in 1984-95, both in relation to each other and compared with countries in Asia and the more...