Public spending and poverty in Mozambique

Arbeitspapier

Little is known about the extent to which public spending is targeted towards the poor in Mozambique. The objective of the present paper is to assess whether public expenditures on education and health, in particular, are successful at reaching the poorer segments of the Mozambican population. Standard non-behavioural benefit-incidence methodology is applied, combining individual client information from survey data with provincial-level data on the cost of service provision. Most of the public services we are able to measure turn are moderately progressive, although some of the instruments we could not measure are probably less equally distributed. In Mozambique it appears that regional and gender imbalances in health and education are more significant than income-based differences. Nevertheless, increased public expenditures on health and education—such as that related to the HIPC initiative—are likely to have significant poverty reducing effects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2001/63

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; National Government Expenditures and Health ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa ; International Lending and Debt Problems
• Thema: government expenditure ; poverty and inequality ; Mozambique ; Armut ; Öffentliche Ausgaben ; Öffentliche Bildungsausgaben ; Gesundheitskosten ; Mosambik

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Heltberg, Rasmus ; Simler, Kenneth ; Tarp, Finn
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2001

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52805
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ