Inverted Targeting. Why Public Social Spending in Latin America Fails the Neediest

P. Lloyd-Sherlock

Working Papers from University of Hertfordshire - Business Schoool

Abstract: This paper shows that in many Latin America countries government expenditure on welfare programmed is in fact quite high and that rather thab the overall scale of these programmes it is their socially divise impact which is at the core of the region's failure to provide a decent level of living to large sectors of its population. The paper examines the current configuration of Latin American public social spending, paying particular attention to these problematic features, and assesses the impact welfare "reforms".

Keywords: LATIN AMERICA; PUBLIC EXPENDITURES; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H5 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1998
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