Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth

Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey

By Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Mohamed Trabelsi

March 19, 2021

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Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, and Mohamed Trabelsi. Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed May 20, 2025

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Summary

This paper explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth. It starts with a presentation of salient features of public expenditure. Then, it lays out an analytical framework that describes the channels through which public expenditure affects inequality and poverty in the short and long term. Based on a review of the empirical literature, it discusses the policy options. Finally, the paper assesses the role of key factors such as the initial conditions, and the institutions, in shaping the inclusive spending policies.

Subject: Education, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Income, Income inequality, National accounts

Keywords: Africa, Global, Inclusive growth, Income, Income inequality, Inequality, Mean inequality impact effectiveness, Policy option, Poverty, Poverty rate, Public expenditure, Social spending, Spending policy

Publication Details

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75
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Working Paper No. 2021/083
Stock No:

WPIEA2021083
ISBN:

9781513574387
ISSN:

1018-5941

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