Seminar presentation – Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies

Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies


On 11 September 2014, Miguel Niño Zarazua presented his recent study at the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) of the World Bank, which finds strong evidence of a positive causal effect of social spending on aggregate welfare. Democratic institutions do not seem to be essential conditions for the effective allocation of public resources to improve aggregate.

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Research Fellow: Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

11 September 2014
World Bank, 1818 H St NW, Washington DC, United States
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    Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a development economist and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Miguel’s research interests are in the areas of poverty, inequality, tax policy, welfare–benefit systems and the social effects that these policies...

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    Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies

    Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is...

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