Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) refers to publicly regulated services that provide education and childcare for children from birth until the start of primary education. ECEC delivers wide‑ranging benefits, including improved cognitive and social development, enhanced school...

This paper examines how low- and lower middle-income countries (LLMICs) can expand government health spending to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage and other health-related Sustainable Development Goals. Despite long-term gains, growth in government health spending has markedly...

Managers of actively managed funds do not maintain a constant investment style. Instead, their factor loadings change over time. These changes are especially large following quarters with extreme returns and fund flows and arise from both active portfolio reallocations and passive style drift....

This paper focuses on an empirical analysis of the relationship between investing and saving, taking into account various economic regions. The economic aggregates are selected following the International Monetary Fund (IMF) standard classification. The investigation is developed within the...