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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare

Mundle, Sudipto - 2018

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

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Political clientelism and capture : theory and evidence from West Bengal, India

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2012

We provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare, and empirical measurement of government...

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Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988 - 2012

Chadha, Nishant; Nandwani, Bharti - 2016

Using data from various rounds of the nationally representative NSSO survey between 1988 and 2012, we first construct national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in inequality in India but only since 2004. We also...

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Group inequality and regional development : evidence from Pakistan

Majid, Hadia; Memon, Rashid - 2016

This study explores the patterns and consequences of ethnic and regional inequalities in Pakistan. Using inter-district variation in inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and access to public goods, we extend the literature on public service provisioning by using finer estimates of between-group...

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Ethnic inequality and community activities in Indonesia

Muller, Christophe - 2016

after the Asian economic crisis. Ethnic inequality based on education is much lower and decreasing. In panel data models …

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Are taxes good for your health?

Carter, Paddy; Cobham, Alex - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

The global framework for financing development, adopted in 2015, places great emphasis on mobilizing domestic resources to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, which include universal healthcare. In a recent paper Reeves et al. (2015) attribute progress towards universal healthcare to...

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Inequality and fiscal redistribution in Mexico : 1992-2015

Scott, John; Rosa, Enrique de la; Balcazar, Rodrigo Aranda - 2017

the principal public transfers (education, health, social security, direct cash transfers) in 1992-2014, and for the full …

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On the impact of external debt and aid on public expenditure allocation in sub-Saharan Africa after the launch of the HIPC initiative

Quattri, Maria; Fosu, Kwasi - 2012

substantially lower than existing estimates for the pre-HIPC period, remains negative for the social sector, with education …

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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies

Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

, education, and social protection) on two major indicators of aggregate welfare (the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index …

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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia : the role of decentralization

Sari, Virgi - 2018

, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation …

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