-effective delivery of public goods and services. This paper analyzes the composition of public expenditure in the Slovak Republic. It … also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social … outcomes in an efficient manner in the education sector, this is not true for health. Moreover, the recent increases in …

new EU member states. Spending on health care, education, and social protection is relatively high in Slovenia without … facilitate the reallocation of relatively inefficient expenditure into higher priorities. In this manner, medium-term expenditure …

, have aimed at improving distributional equity through pro-poor expenditure programs, while at the same time seeking to …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to ¼ of disposable … income. We use household-level data to explain the postponing of consumption despite rapid income growth. Tracing cohorts … expenditures on housing, education, and health care. …

analyzes how these objectives can be met in Bulgaria through either a growth-adjusted balance rule or an expenditure rule …

This paper studies the cyclical behavior of public spending on health and education in 150 countries during 1987 - 2007 …. It finds that spending on education and health is procyclical in developing countries and acyclical in developed … countries. In addition, education and health expenditures follow an asymmetric pattern in developing countries; they are …