The benefit-incidence of public spending: the Caribbean experience

John Gafar
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John Gafar: Department of Economics, Long Island University, USA, Postal: Department of Economics, Long Island University, USA

Journal of International Development, 2006, vol. 18, issue 4, 449-468

Abstract: This paper shows that public spending on basic services, to wit, primary and secondary education and basic health care benefit the poor; while the non-poor are the principal beneficiaries of tertiary and education subsidies and hospital spending. The evidence also shows that expenditures on infrastructure spending in the Caribbean benefit the non-poor disproportionately more than the poor. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1002/jid.1233

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