What happens to social spending in IMF-supported programmes?

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 4022-4033

  Clements, Benedict ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Nozaki, Masahiro ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

education and health; fiscal policy; IMF; social spending

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATION; FISCAL POLICY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; IMF; MACROECONOMICS; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 84871335529     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.744136     Document Type: Article

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