Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital
Using a new data set comprised of publicly available information, this paper provides cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social spending that covers the three sectors of health, education, and social protection has proven to be a challenging task. Only for health spending is there high data coverage over time and across countries. Education and, especially, social protection display large gaps. Increases in social sector spending have generally been slow and unsteady. Although education spending in low-income countries has seen a stable and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly correlated with spending in the three sectors. Finally, this paper discusses future research required to provide guidance on how much and what type of investment is needed to achieve high levels of human capital.
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dig-okr-10986324932024-08-09T06:39:29Z Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends Andrews, Kathryn Avitabile, Ciro Gatti, Roberta HUMAN CAPITAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURE SOCIAL SECTOR SPENDING GOVERNMENT SPENDING PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE EDUCATION EXPENDITURE Using a new data set comprised of publicly available information, this paper provides cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social spending that covers the three sectors of health, education, and social protection has proven to be a challenging task. Only for health spending is there high data coverage over time and across countries. Education and, especially, social protection display large gaps. Increases in social sector spending have generally been slow and unsteady. Although education spending in low-income countries has seen a stable and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly correlated with spending in the three sectors. Finally, this paper discusses future research required to provide guidance on how much and what type of investment is needed to achieve high levels of human capital. 2019-10-04T19:32:21Z 2019-10-04T19:32:21Z 2019-10 Working Paper Document de travail Documento de trabajo http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/712531569957422450/Domestic-Government-Spending-on-Human-Capital-A-Cross-Country-Analysis-of-Recent-Trends https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32493 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9033 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf World Bank, Washington, DC |
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Using a new data set comprised of
publicly available information, this paper provides
cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for
human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social
spending that covers the three sectors of health, education,
and social protection has proven to be a challenging task.
Only for health spending is there high data coverage over
time and across countries. Education and, especially, social
protection display large gaps. Increases in social sector
spending have generally been slow and unsteady. Although
education spending in low-income countries has seen a stable
and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably
flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly correlated with
spending in the three sectors. Finally, this paper discusses
future research required to provide guidance on how much and
what type of investment is needed to achieve high levels of
human capital. |
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Andrews, Kathryn Avitabile, Ciro Gatti, Roberta |
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