Poverty, Education, and Health in Indonesia : Who Benefits from Public Spending?

Lanjouw, Peter ; Pradhan, Menno ; Saadah, Fadia ; Sayed, Haneen ; Sparrow, Robert

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AVERAGE AGE;    AVERAGE INCOMES;    BASIC EDUCATION;    BENEFIT INCIDENCE;    CONSUMPTION MEASURE;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2739
RP-ID  :  WPS2739

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The authors investigate the extent towhich Indonesia's poor benefit from public and privateprovisioning of education and health services. Drawing onmultiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they documenta reversal in the rate of decline in poverty and a slowdownin social sector improvements resulting from the economiccrisis in the second half of the 1990s. Carrying outtraditional static benefit-incidence analysis of publicspending in education and health, the authors find patternsconsistent with experience in other countries: spending onprimary education and primary health care tends to bepro-poor, while spending on higher education and hospitalsis less obviously beneficial to the poor. These conclusionsare tempered once one allows for economies of scale inconsumption which weaken the link between poverty status andhousehold size. The authors also examine the incidence ofchanges in government spending. They find that the marginalincidence of spending in both junior and senior secondaryschooling is more progressive than what static analysiswould suggest, consistent with "early capture" bythe non-poor of education spending. In the health sectormarginal and average incidence analysis point to the sameconclusion: the greatest benefit to the poor would come froman increase in primary health care spending.