Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morrisson, Christian

Titel

Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa: Madagascar and Tanzania

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Paris: OECD Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

OECD iLibrary

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book demonstrates that in the case of very poor countries, policies aimed at universal provision of education and health services benefit the poor significantly more than more expensive targeted schemes. The book draws attention to the absolute need for coherence and co-ordination so that schools are not built without teachers and dispensaries without drugs. Moreover, national macroeconomic policies have to be realistic if the health and education sectors are not to be deprived of resources. Finally, the quality of governance is shown to have a direct effect on the efficiency of social spending.