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

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

The authors investigate the extent to which Indonesia's poor benefit from public and private provisioning of education and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they document a reversal in the rate of declin...

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Main Authors:	Lanjouw, Peter, Pradhan, Menno, Saadah, Fadia, Sayed, Haneen, Sparrow, Robert
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AVERAGE AGE AVERAGE INCOMES BASIC EDUCATION BENEFIT INCIDENCE CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION MODULE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL CRISIS FUNCTIONAL FORM GIRLS HEAD COUNT RATIO HEADCOUNT MEASURE HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEALTH CARE HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH PROVISION HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLITERACY IMPROVED HEALTH INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVELS INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERVENTION INTRINSIC VALUE LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVING STANDARDS LONG TERM MALNUTRITION MEDICAL FACILITIES MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NATIONAL AVERAGE NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NUTRITIONAL INDICATORS NUTRITIONAL STATUS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR AREAS POOR BENEFIT POOR INDIVIDUALS POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY GAP POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LINES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY PROFILES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRO-POOR PROBABILITY PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC SPENDING REAL TERMS REDUCING POVERTY RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SAFETY SAFETY NET SCHOOL GRADUATES SECONDARY SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL SECTORS SOCIAL WELFARE SQUARED POVERTY GAP URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1660258/poverty-education-health-indonesia-benefits-public-spending http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19406

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Summary:	The authors investigate the extent to which Indonesia's poor benefit from public and private provisioning of education and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they document a reversal in the rate of decline in poverty and a slowdown in social sector improvements resulting from the economic crisis in the second half of the 1990s. Carrying out traditional static benefit-incidence analysis of public spending in education and health, the authors find patterns consistent with experience in other countries: spending on primary education and primary health care tends to be pro-poor, while spending on higher education and hospitals is less obviously beneficial to the poor. These conclusions are tempered once one allows for economies of scale in consumption which weaken the link between poverty status and household size. The authors also examine the incidence of changes in government spending. They find that the marginal incidence of spending in both junior and senior secondary schooling is more progressive than what static analysis would suggest, consistent with "early capture" by the non-poor of education spending. In the health sector marginal and average incidence analysis point to the same conclusion: the greatest benefit to the poor would come from an increase in primary health care spending.

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