Title How useful are benefit incidence analyses of public education and health spending? / Hamid R. Davoodi, Erwin R. Tiongson, and Sawitree S. Asawanuchit

Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrations Series IMF working paper ; WP/03/227 IMF working paper ; WP/03/227. Contents Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR AND METHODOLOGY OF BIA -- III. DATA SET -- IV. EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE INCIDENCE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH SPENDING -- V. SOME MEASURES OF ASSOCIATIONS -- VI. SUMMARY AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES Summary This paper provides a primer on benefit incidence analysis (BIA) for macroeconomists and a new data set on the benefit incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in quality and coverage over existing compilations. The paper demonstrates the usefulness of BIA in two dimensions. First, the paper finds, among other things, that overall education and health spending are poorly targeted; benefits from primary education and primary health care go disproportionately to the middle class, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIPCs and transition economies; but targeting has improved in the 1990s. Second, simple measures of association show that countries with a more propoor incidence of education and health spending tend to have better education and health outcomes, good governance, high per capita income, and wider accessibility to information. The paper explores policy implications of these findings Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-47) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Government spending policy -- Evaluation Public health administration -- Evaluation Education -- Costs -- Evaluation Education -- Costs. Government spending policy -- Evaluation Public health administration -- Evaluation Form Electronic book Author Tiongson, Erwin, author. Asawanuchit, Sawitree S., author. International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department. International Monetary Fund. Middle Eastern Department. ISBN 1283516322 9781283516327 9781451875430 1451875436 9781451920031 1451920032 1462356729 9781462356720 1452724806 9781452724805 9786613828774 6613828777

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