Cloutier, Marie-Hélène; Cockburn, John; Decaluwé, Bernard - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …