Education and health care are basic services essential in any effort to combat poverty and are often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that purpose. This paper examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in several African countries and finds that these programs favor not the poor, but those who are better-off. It concludes that this targeting problem cannot be solved simply by adjusting the subsidy...
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1999/02/01
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日志文章
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76630
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2013/04/15
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Public social spending in Africa : do the poor benefit?
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health care delivery system