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Inefficient public spending to alleviate poverty
Name(s):
Ineffective investment in poverty reduction
Nature
Government subsidies and high-cost approach to housing, education, food or health care has not been able to relieve poverty or provide services for large numbers of poor people.
Broader
Decline in government expenditure
Inappropriate public spending by government
Narrower
Inadequate health services
Misallocation of resources in health services
Related
Debilitating poverty image
Subsistence approach to capital resources
Aggravates
Socio-economic poverty
Subsistence-level malnutrition
Aggravated by
Insufficient government spending on cost-effective activities
Strategy(ies)
Sustaining relief with development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for poverty alleviation
Increasing efficiency of public spending to alleviate poverty
Value(s)
Ineffectiveness
Inefficiency
Overefficient
Overspending
Poverty
Reduction
Reference(s)
World Bank: World Development Report 1993: investing in health
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems