On the cyclicality of social expenditure : new time-varying evidence from developing economies

This paper provides a novel dataset of time-varying measures of social spending cyclicality for an unbalanced panel of 45 developing economies from 1982 to 2012. More specifically, we focus on four categories of government social expenditure: health, social protection, pensions and education. We fin...

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Main Author: Jalles, João Tovar (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17800
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/17800