Honduras : Selected Issues and Analytical Notes
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Summary:
This Selected Issues paper uses efficiency frontiers for benchmarking of social spending in Honduras. The results reveal significant room to improve public health and education spending efficiency with potentially large fiscal savings. From an input-oriented point of view, Honduras performs poorly in education and health spending efficiency. From an output-oriented point of view, health spending efficiency appears to be in line with regional comparators, while there is room to improve efficiency in secondary education. In health and education spending, the priority is to tackle the disconnection between compensation benefits and labor productivity.
Series:
Country Report No. 16/363
Subject:
Banking sector Corruption Credit expansion Economic growth External sector Financial crises Financial soundness indicators Financial statistics Honduras Oil prices Private sector Real sector Selected Issues Papers Stand-by arrangement reviews Standby Credit Facility Stress testing
English
Publication Date:
November 22, 2016
ISBN/ISSN:
9781475556551/1934-7685
Stock No:
1HNDEA2016003
Format:
Paper
Pages:
55
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