Description: Efficiency in Reaching the Millennium Development Goals

Efficiency in Reaching the Millennium Development Goals

To improve the likelihood of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), or more generally to improve their social indicators, countries (or states and provinces within countries) basically have two options: increasing the inputs used to &quo...

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Main Authors:	Jayasuriya, Ruwan, Wodon, Quentin
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:	DEVELOPMENT GOALS HEALTH ASSESSMENTS EDUCATION INDICATORS METHODOLOGY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY BUILDING CHILD MORTALITY RATES QUALITY EDUCATION POVERTY POPULATION & DEMOGRAPHY GENDER ISSUES BASIC SERVICES ENROLMENT RATIO URBANIZATION METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS ACCESS TO EDUCATION ADULT ILLITERACY ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATION AGED ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY BASKET OF GOODS BENCHMARKS BEST PRACTICE BORROWING BOUNDARIES BULLETIN CENTRAL AMERICA CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONSUMER PRICE INDEX DECISION MAKING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DISABILITY DISCUSSION DISEASES DISSEMINATION DIVISION OF LABOR DOCUMENTS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC FREEDOM ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMICS ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION ECONOMICS RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXOGENOUS VARIABLES EXPECTED VALUE EXTREME POVERTY FINANCIAL MARKETS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GENDER DISPARITIES GENDER EQUALITY GOVERNMENT POLICIES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH RATE HEALTH CARE HEALTH CENTERS HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH TARGETS HOSPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ILLITERACY ILLITERACY RATE INCOME INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INDUSTRIALIZATION INEFFICIENCY INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFLATION INFLATION RATE INNOVATION INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INVENTION LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LATIN AMERICAN LEADING LEARNING LEGAL STATUS LEVELS OF EDUCATION LIFE EXPECTANCY LOCAL CAPACITY MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MALARIA MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO MATHEMATICS MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION MEASLES MIDDLE EAST MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MORTALITY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS NATIONAL LEVEL NEWBORN NORTH AFRICA NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF WORKERS OUTPUTS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POOR INDIVIDUALS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PRICE CONTROLS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRIVATE DECISION MAKING PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTION INPUTS PRODUCTION PROCESS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RATES OF URBANIZATION RATIO OF WOMEN REAL GDP REAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT RESEARCH CENTERS RESPECT RETURNS TO SCALE RULE OF LAW RURAL AREAS SAFE DRINKING WATER SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL ENROLMENT SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY ENROLMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE PROVISION SKILLED HEALTH PERSONNEL SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECTOR SOCIAL SECTORS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE ACCESS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TERTIARY EDUCATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION WESTERN EUROPE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/9866973/efficiency-reaching-millennium-development-goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13884

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Summary:	To improve the likelihood of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), or more generally to improve their social indicators, countries (or states and provinces within countries) basically have two options: increasing the inputs used to "produce" the outcomes measured by the MDGs, or increasing the efficiency with which they use their existing inputs. The four papers presented in this study look at whether improvements in efficiency could bring gains in outcomes. The first two papers use world panel data in order to analyze country level efficiency in improving education, health, and GDP indicators (GDP is related to the MDGs because a higher level of income leads to a reduction in poverty). The other two papers use province and state level data to analyze within-country efficiency in Argentina and Mexico for "producing" good education and health outcomes. Together, the four papers suggest that apart from increasing inputs, it will be necessary to improve efficiency in order to reach the MDGs. While this conclusion is hardly surprising, the analysis helps to quantify how much progress could be achieved through better efficiency, and to some extent, how efficiency itself could be improved.

Efficiency in Reaching the Millennium Development Goals

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