This paper looks at the pattern of public expenditure in Africa during the adjustment decade, paying particular attention to the social sectors. It concludes that the poverty focus and the poverty reduction impact of public spending in Africa is very low. The reasons for this include a lack of funds for nonwage recurrent expenditures in core economic and social services, inadequate intrasectoral resource allocation from a poverty reduction point of...
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1990/12/31
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Document de travail (série numérotée)
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9361
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2010/07/01
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Poverty - conscious restructuring of public expenditure
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public expenditure