Public Health Spending, Governance Quality and Poverty Alleviation

Public Spending for Poverty Reduction

Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: Problems and Prospect

Nigeria is rich in land, people, oil and natural gas and other resources needed to bring about her development. Inspite of these abundant resources, majority of the people are still wallowing in poverty. The problem of governance readily comes to mind as Nigeria needs not remain at the present level of under development, at this stage of her national life. Therefore, lack of good governance has...

Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique

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 informa...

Cadastral reform, governance and poverty alleviation by Fourie

Increasingly developing world governments are being re-structured to improve governance and to alleviate poverty, and this also applies to government departments associated with the registration and cadastral systems. The link between cadastral reform, good governance and poverty alleviation will be explored by reviewing some of the recent thinking in this area, and by drawing on experience wit...

Quality of governance, public spending on health and health status in Sub Saharan Africa: a panel data regression analysis

BACKGROUND The population in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers poor health as manifested in high mortality rates and low life expectancy. Economic growth has consistently been shown to be a major determinant of health outcomes. However, even with good economic growth rates, it is not possible to achieve desired improvements in health outcomes. Public spending on health (PSH) has long been viewed...