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Chai, Jingqing
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Austerity Measures threaten children and poor households: Recent Evidence in Public Expenditures from 128 Developing Countries. Working Paper
In the wake of the food, fuel and financial shocks, a fourth wave of the global economic crisis began to sweep across developing countries in 2010: fiscal austerity. Serving as an update of earlier research by UNICEF, this working paper: examines the late
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Identifying fiscal space: Options for Social and Economic Development for Children and Poor Households in 184 Countries
It is often argued that social and economic investments that benefit children and poor households are not affordable or that government expenditure cuts are inevitable during adjustment periods. But there are alternatives, even in the poorest countries. T