Departmental Papers

Social Spending for Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and Central Asia

ByKoshy Mathai, Christoph Duenwald, Anastasia Guscina, Rayah Al-Farah, Hatim Bukhari, Atif Chaudry, Moataz El-Said, Fozan Fareed, Kerstin Gerling, Nghia-Piotr Le, Franto Ricka, Cesar Serra, Tetyana Sydorenko, Sébastien Walker, Mohammed Zaher

September 29, 2020

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Koshy Mathai, Christoph Duenwald, Anastasia Guscina, Rayah Al-Farah, Hatim Bukhari, Atif Chaudry, Moataz El-Said, Fozan Fareed, Kerstin Gerling, Nghia-Piotr Le, Franto Ricka, Cesar Serra, Tetyana Sydorenko, Sébastien Walker, and Mohammed Zaher. "Social Spending for Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and Central Asia", Departmental Papers 2020, 012 (2020), accessed 12/5/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513553115.087

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Summary

This paper examines the role of social spending in improving socioeconomic outcomes in the Middle East and Central Asia. In particular, it addresses the following questions: (1) how large is social spending across the region? (2) how do countries in the region fare on socioeconomic outcomes? (3) how important is social spending as a determinant of these outcomes? and (4) how efficient is social spending in the region?

Subject: Education, Education spending, Equity and social spending, Expenditure, Health, Health care spending, Inclusive growth, Middle East and Central Asia, Social protection spending

Keywords: care spending, consumption expenditure, DP, DPPP, Education spending, foreign-aid-funded spending, Global, Health care spending, health care spending adequacy, IMF emergency financing operation, IMF staff calculation, Inclusive growth, infant mortality, Middle East and Central Asia, public health care spending, purchasing power parity, Social protection, Social spending, spend, spending efficiency, wasteful spending

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