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008 090520s2008 dcu sb i000 0 eng
010 $a 2009655727
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHG3881.5.W57
100 1 $aBourguignon, François.
245 10 $aAid, service delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an economy-wide framework$h[electronic resource] /$cFrancois Bourguignon, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Hans Lofgren.
260 $a[Washington, D.C. :$bWorld Bank,$c2008]
490 1 $aPolicy research working paper ;$v4683
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 5/20/2009.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially for low-income countries, the challenges of the MDGs cannot be well understood unless sector issues are seen in the context of constraints at the macro level and in labor markets. To help countries analyze policies aimed at making progress toward the goals, the World Bank has developed a new tool, the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS). Its originality is to fully integrate government services and their impact on the economy within an otherwise standard economy-wide dynamic framework. In comparison with existing approaches, MAMS offers three main advantages. First, the representation of the production of government services - such as health or education - takes into account demand as well as supply factors and the efficiency of these services. It also allows for interactions across the goals, and between the goals and economic growth. Second, it shows how scaling up these services has economy-wide impacts that may change resource allocation in the non-government sector and relative prices, including the unit cost of government services. Third, it shows the tradeoffs across time, including the relative costs and benefits, of front-loading expenditures versus back-loading. The present paper describes the basic features of MAMS and provides an illustration of its applicability for Ethiopia. "--World Bank web site.
650 0 $aEconomic development projects$zDeveloping countries.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance$zEthiopia.
700 1 $aDiaz-Bonilla, Carolina.
700 1 $aLofgren, Hans$c(Economist)
710 2 $aWorld Bank.
830 0 $aPolicy research working papers (Online) ;$v4683.
856 40 $uhttp://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20080806084706