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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Panama.
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- Author/Creator:
- World Bank Group.
- Series:
- Public Expenditure Review
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Health Services.
- Adolescents.
- Child Mortality.
- Children.
- Communicable Diseases.
- Decision Making.
- Diabetes.
- Disabilities.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Environmental Health.
- Epidemiology.
- Food Security.
- Gross Domestic Product.
- Health.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Health Outcomes.
- Health Systems Development & Reform.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Hospitals.
- Household Surveys.
- Human Capital.
- Human Development.
- Improving Labor Markets.
- Income Inequality.
- Indigenous Peoples.
- Internet.
- Investment In Education.
- Job Creation.
- Maternal Health.
- Maternal Mortality.
- Measles.
- Measurement.
- Migration.
- Millennium Development Goals.
- Morbidity.
- Mortality.
- Mortality Rate.
- Needs Assessment.
- Nurses.
- Nutrition.
- Physicians.
- Population Density.
- Population Policies.
- Pregnancy.
- Prenatal Care.
- Prevention.
- Primary Education.
- Public Expenditure, Financial Management and Procurement.
- Public Health.
- Public Sector Development.
- Public Sector Governance.
- Purchasing Power.
- Purchasing Power Parity.
- Quality of Education.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Sanitation.
- School Attendance.
- Secondary Education.
- Social Development.
- Social Protection and Risk Management.
- Social Safety Nets/Social Assistance Social Care Services.
- Tertiary Education.
- Tetanus.
- Tuberculosis.
- Unemployment.
- Universal Primary Education.
- Urban Areas.
- Weight.
- Whooping Cough.
- Women.
- Workers.
- World Health Organization.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Health Services.
- Adolescents.
- Child Mortality.
- Children.
- Communicable Diseases.
- Decision Making.
- Diabetes.
- Disabilities.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Environmental Health.
- Epidemiology.
- Food Security.
- Gross Domestic Product.
- Health.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Health Outcomes.
- Health Systems Development & Reform.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Hospitals.
- Household Surveys.
- Human Capital.
- Human Development.
- Improving Labor Markets.
- Income Inequality.
- Indigenous Peoples.
- Internet.
- Investment In Education.
- Job Creation.
- Maternal Health.
- Maternal Mortality.
- Measles.
- Measurement.
- Migration.
- Millennium Development Goals.
- Morbidity.
- Mortality.
- Mortality Rate.
- Needs Assessment.
- Nurses.
- Nutrition.
- Physicians.
- Population Density.
- Population Policies.
- Pregnancy.
- Prenatal Care.
- Prevention.
- Primary Education.
- Public Expenditure, Financial Management and Procurement.
- Public Health.
- Public Sector Development.
- Public Sector Governance.
- Purchasing Power.
- Purchasing Power Parity.
- Quality of Education.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Sanitation.
- School Attendance.
- Secondary Education.
- Social Development.
- Social Protection and Risk Management.
- Social Safety Nets/Social Assistance Social Care Services.
- Tertiary Education.
- Tetanus.
- Tuberculosis.
- Unemployment.
- Universal Primary Education.
- Urban Areas.
- Weight.
- Whooping Cough.
- Women.
- Workers.
- World Health Organization.
- Other Title:
- Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Panama has experienced impressive and significant economic growth, emerging as one of the better performers in Central America in recent years and one of the fastest growing economies worldwide. From 2003 to 2013, Panama has averaged an annual GDP growth rate of approximately 7 percent, surpassing the average GDP growth in Central America. It has also emerged as one of the fastest growing economies worldwide. Even during the economic crisis of 2008-2009, its economy continued to grow albeit at a lower rate. This note recommends that Panama prioritize three main aspects: a) improving the effectiveness of social public spending by further enhancing the pro-poor and pro-indigenous features of targeting mechanisms; b) reducing inefficiencies in the various sectors, for example, by improving the coordination between the Ministries of Education, Health, Social Development, and CSS to minimize duplication of efforts and resources; and c) strengthening planning, budgeting, and information tools and systems, legislation, and institutions to support implementation and track progress toward Government goals.
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