The authors investigate the extent to which Indonesia's poor benefit from public and private provisioning of education … 1990s. Carrying out traditional static benefit-incidence analysis of public spending in education and health, the authors … find patterns consistent with experience in other countries: spending on primary education and primary health care tends to …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

higher-income countries. Efficiency has improved during the 1990s in energy and education but has not improved significantly …

Using primary data from the health and education ministries, and household survey data from the Ghana Statistical … Service, the authors analyze equity, and efficiency issues in public spending on health, and education in Ghana in the 1990s …. Public expenditures in the education sector, declined in the second half of the 1990s. Basic education enrollment has been …

relevant for developing countries, where public spending on education and health is relatively low, and the state of governance … public spending can be explained by quality of governance. The authors find that public health spending lowers child and … governance, public spending on primary education becomes effective in increasing primary education attainment. These findings …

What are the current trends and main characteristics of public education spending in Indonesia? Is education spending … insufficient? Are expenditures in education efficient and equitable? This study reports the first account of Indonesia's aggregated … education enrollment. It concludes that the current challenges in Indonesia are no longer defined by the need of additional …

? This paper presents experimental evidence on this question in the context of a policy change in Indonesia that led to a …

The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian … social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the … find that, controlling for any concurrent provider payment reforms, adoption of social health insurance increased national …

Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial … consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently … to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in …

health outcomes and health service use. In any effort to address these questions, analysts must confront the issue of how to … analysis of health inequalities and the incidence of public spending. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the potential … sensitivity of the analysis of health-related inequalities to how socioeconomic status is measured. Using data from Mozambique …