Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique

Rasmus Heltberg, Kenneth Simler and Finn Tarp

No DP2001-63, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Little is known about the extent to which public spending is targeted towards the poor in Mozambique. The objective of the present paper is to assess whether public expenditures on education and health, in particular, are successful at reaching the poorer segments of the Mozambican population. Standard non-behavioural benefit-incidence methodology is applied, combining individual client information from survey data with provincial-level data on the cost of service provision.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Public expenditures; Poverty; Public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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