Luiz de Mello and Mauro Pisu published "The Effectiveness of Education and Health Speding Among Brazilian Municipalities", as Economic Departament Working Paper n. 712, OECD. "The main empirical findings are that government spending is a powerful determinant of education outcomes, but this is not the case for health, and that spending on non-education programmes are also at least as important." Available in:http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT000049FE/$FILE/JT03267915.PDF
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