exercise that focusses on five sectors - education, health, roads, water, and electricity infrastructure. Achieving the …'s success story, highlighting crucial policies in education and electricity sectors. It undertakes a forward-looking costing …

improve: the quality, and not just the quantity, of education and health care; outcomes for disadvantaged groups; and lifelong …We discuss existing shortfalls and inequalities in the accumulation of human capital-knowledge, skills, and health. We …

. It uses dominance tests to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. The … paper finds that social services are poorly targeted. Among the services examined, primary education tends to be most … progressive, and university education is least progressive. The paper finds that many taxes are progressive as well as efficient …

In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education … indicators are also often used. This study examines whether health and education levels are converging across countries and … human capital convergence. The results confirm that investments in education and health are closely linked. We find …

Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper …, financial stability, and housing affordability. Not surprisingly, when faced with multiple objectives, deploying more policy …

To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of … risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada … risks. In addition, capital flows are found to be significantly associated with future downside risks to major housing …

of bubbles forming there. However, China's unique housing market characteristics make it difficult to assess the …

market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contribute to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic …