Expenditure Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence

In this paper, we examine the progressivity of social sector expenditures in eight sub-Saharan African countries. We employ dominance tests, complemented by extended Gini/concentration coefficients, to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. We find th...

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Volume:	21
Main Author:	Sahn D.E Younger S.D
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	London, UK Institute for Fiscal Studies 01.09.2000 The Institute for Fiscal Studies Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	Fiscal studies Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 329 - 347
Data of publication:	September 2000
ISSN:	1475-5890 0143-5671 1475-5890
EISSN:	1475-5890
Discipline:	Business Political Science Education
Bibliography:	The authors conducted part of this research while Younger was a visiting Research Fellow at the Free University in Amsterdam. They gratefully acknowledge that university's financial support and hospitality.
Subjects:	development economics inequality poverty social security Primary education Hospitals Higher education Education Secondary education Lorenz curve Health care industry Subsidies Progressive education Social services Sub-Saharan Africa Africa
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