Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala
Social spending in Guatemala needs to achieve efficiency gains and increase to minimum levels to meet basic human development objectives. Current levels are so low that fiscal reform (in revenue generation and spending allocation) is urgently neede...
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okr-10986-257662021-05-25T08:56:20Z Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala World Bank public expenditure social spending education spending health spending social protection safety nets labor policies policy reform Social spending in Guatemala needs to achieve efficiency gains and increase to minimum levels to meet basic human development objectives. Current levels are so low that fiscal reform (in revenue generation and spending allocation) is urgently needed so that the state can fulfill its mandated coverage and quality in social service provision. In the last ten years, Guatemala has had decent economic growth but failed to improve human development indicators or reduce poverty (which has increased). Low and inefficient public spending, coupled with outdated legal and institutional frameworks, are significant barriers to increasing enrollment and providing quality education. Moving forward, more efficient, equitable, and cost-effective public education spending will require some important policy and institutional changes, including greater use of the incipient monitoring and evaluation system. There is need for increased spending in social assistance interventions, better coordination among implementing agencies, and revised targeting to ensure decent coverage of programs among the poorest. On the institutional side, the launching of the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) provided a platform to manage the different programs of the sector under one umbrella; however, MIDES has not yet been able to tackle technical deficiencies in implementation. 2016-12-15T22:57:09Z 2016-12-15T22:57:09Z 2016-08-25 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/979251481092306649/Central-America-Social-expenditures-and-institutional-review-Guatemala http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25766 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review Economic & Sector Work Latin America & Caribbean Guatemala |
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Social spending in Guatemala needs to
achieve efficiency gains and increase to minimum levels to
meet basic human development objectives. Current levels are
so low that fiscal reform (in revenue generation and
spending allocation) is urgently needed so that the state
can fulfill its mandated coverage and quality in social
service provision. In the last ten years, Guatemala has had
decent economic growth but failed to improve human
development indicators or reduce poverty (which has
increased). Low and inefficient public spending, coupled
with outdated legal and institutional frameworks, are
significant barriers to increasing enrollment and providing
quality education. Moving forward, more efficient,
equitable, and cost-effective public education spending will
require some important policy and institutional changes,
including greater use of the incipient monitoring and
evaluation system. There is need for increased spending in
social assistance interventions, better coordination among
implementing agencies, and revised targeting to ensure
decent coverage of programs among the poorest. On the
institutional side, the launching of the Ministry of Social
Development (MIDES) provided a platform to manage the
different programs of the sector under one umbrella;
however, MIDES has not yet been able to tackle technical
deficiencies in implementation. |
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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala |
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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala |
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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala |
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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala |
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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Guatemala |
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central america social expenditures and institutional review : guatemala |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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