TY - BOOK ID - 133570693 TI - Government Expenditures On Education, Health, and Infrastructure : A Naive Look At Levels, Outcomes, and Efficiency AU - Trujillo, Lourdes AU - Estache, Antonio AU - Gonzalez, Marianela PY - 2007 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Accountability KW - Allocation KW - E-Business KW - Expenditure levels KW - Fiscal adjustment KW - Government Expenditures KW - Health Monitoring and Evaluation KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Labor Policies KW - Private Sector Development KW - Programs KW - Public expenditure KW - Public expenditures KW - Public sector KW - Public Sector Expenditure Analysis and Management KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Total expenditure KW - Transport KW - Transport Economics, Policy and Planning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133570693 AB - All interested parties seem to agree that it is important to be able to monitor public sector performance at the sectoral level, but most current work based on multi-country databases does not lend itself to country-specific conclusions. This is due to a large extent to major data limitations both on sectoral expenditures and on sectoral outcomes. This paper discusses the related issues and shows what we can do with the current data inspite of the drastic limitations. The main conclusions of the paper are that any efforts to assess country-specific performances in relative terms are likely to be difficult in view of the data problems. A rough sense of performance across sectors can be estimated for groups of countries, allowing some modest benchmarking exercises. These estimates show that low-income countries generally lag significantly behind higher-income countries. Efficiency has improved during the 1990s in energy and education but has not improved significantly in transport. ER -