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Sources of data

ADB (Asian Development Bank):  Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2013: Part III – Regional trends and tables: Government and governance (Manila, 2014). Available at: http://www.adb.org/publications/key-indicators-asia-and-pacific-2013?ref=publications/series/key-indicators-for-asia-and-the-pacific [6 Jun. 2014]. Consistent with IMF data for last years for which such data are available.

European Commission, Eurostat, Living conditions and welfare: Social Protection Database (ESSPROS) (Luxembourg, 2013). Available at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/living_conditions_and_social_protection/data/database [6 Jun. 2014]

GSW (Government Spending Watch). Available at: http://www.governmentspendingwatch.org/spending-data [20 May 2014].

ILO (International Labour Office): ILO Social Security Inquiry; Indicator: E-1f: Public social protection expenditure excluding health benefit in kind as a percentage of GDP (Geneva 2014). Available at: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/ilossi/ssiindic.viewMultiIndic3?p_lang=en&p_indicator_code=E-1f [6 Jun. 2014].

IMF (International Monetary Fund): Government Finance Statistics, March 2014. Public social protection (excluding health) expenditure in percentage of GDP (Washington, DC, 2014).

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). OECD Social and welfare statistics: Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) (Paris, 2013). Available at: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=SOCX_AGG [6 Jun. 2014].

UN ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean): Statistics and indicators, social public expenditure (Santiago de Chile, 2014). Available at: http://www.cepal.org/default.asp?idioma=IN [6 Jun. 2014].

WHO (World Health Organization): National Health Accounts (Global Health Expenditure database). Available at:  http://apps.who.int/nha/database [6 Jun. 2014].