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Investing in Indonesia's Education : Allocation, Equity, and Efficiency of Public Expenditures

Arze del Granado, F. Javier - 2016

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 …

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Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure : An International Benchmarking Exercise

Herrera, Santiago - 2018

Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic product levels. Therefore, measuring efficiency and...

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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil - 2017

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it affects the relationship between public spending and outcomes. Their main innovation is to see if differences in efficacy of public spending can be explained by quality of...

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Quality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure : A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Miningou, Elise Wendlassida - 2019

Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and considerable public resources have been dedicated to achieving this goal. However, one could wonder whether increasing public education expenditure would drive better access to...

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Government Expenditures on Education, Health, and Infrastructure : A Naive Look at Levels, Outcomes, and Efficiency

Estache, Antonio - 2016

All interested parties seem to agree that it is important to be able to monitor public sector performance at the sectoral level, but most current work based on multi-country databases does not lend itself to country-specific conclusions. This is due to a large extent to major data limitations...

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Electoral Accountability and Local Government Spending in Indonesia

Narayan, Ambar - 2017

This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double-difference estimator to measure impacts on (i) human development outcomes and (ii) the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level. The analysis reveals that...

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Agriculture Public Spending and Growth in Indonesia

Blanco Armas, Enrique - 2017

This paper analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as the … public spending on fertilizer subsidies had the opposite effect. The composition of spending patterns in Indonesia over the … findings about the impact of overall public spending on growth, with a particular focus on Indonesia, followed by an analysis …

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico

Avitabile, Ciro - 2017

A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the...

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Mass Media and Public Services : The Effects of Radio Access on Public Education in Benin

Keefer, Philip - 2017

Does radio access improve public service provision? And if so, does it do so by increasing government accountability to citizens, or by persuading households to take advantage of publicly-provided services? Prior research has argued that citizens with greater access to mass media receive greater...

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The Impacts of Safety Nets in Africa : What are We Learning?

Ralston, Laura - 2018

Safety nets in Africa are a popular policy instrument to address the widespread chronic poverty and encourage human capital investments in the education and health of children. Although there have been considerable analyses on the impacts of safety nets globally, particularly in Latin America,...

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