Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1317-1341

  Baldacci, Emanuele ^a   Clements, Benedict ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Cui, Qiang ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

economic growth; human capital; MDGs; social spending

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; HUMAN CAPITAL; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL;

EID: 47049116531     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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