More spending is not the answer: evidence from Uruguay’s public schools

Santi, Daniel and Sicilia, Gabriela (2015) More spending is not the answer: evidence from Uruguay’s public schools. International Growth Centre Blog (27 Oct 2015). Blog Entry.

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Workfare programmes have become an increasingly common form of social transfer. From 2007-2009, the World Bank alone funded workfare programmes in 24 different countries. While they offer a valuable safety net to households in lean times, workfare programmes can also produce unintended effects. Looking at the case of NREGA in India, today’s blog argues that a better understanding of ‘price effects’ is needed to improve targeting and reduce trade-offs to education

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	http://www.theigc.org/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International Growth Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools University Structure > Language Centre L Education > LE Individual institutions (America except United States)
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2017 07:50
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81844

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