ENGLISH

Education and Health Expenditure, and Development : the Cases of Indonesia and Peru.

By OECD

Book information

Publisher
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Year
2002
ISBN
9789264194281, 9264194282
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
568 kB (581800 bytes)
Series
Development Centre studies.
Pages
168\168
Time added
2017-11-06 06:45:14
Education and state;Finance;Government policy;Huma

Description

When setting spending priorities in education and health, countries all too often target expensive schemes which can be shown only to benefit specific sections of the population, often the non-poor. The building of certain urban hospitals and universities may fall into this category. Wherever expenditure is directed to universal schemes, such as establishing rural and urban clinics, kindergartens and primary schools, however, the poor can be shown to benefit more. This book pleads for a series of policy orientations leading towards pro-poor health and education spending.  Read more...

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