Gender and Public Spending: Insights from Benefit Incidence
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چکیده
This paper reviews the value added to benefit incidence analysis of public spending when results are disaggregated by gender, looking at education spending in Côte d’Ivoire (1995) and health care access in Ghana (1992). In Côte d’Ivoire the low incidence of benefits to poor households was due partly to high spending on tertiary education, which poor households do not access, but also to decisions by these households not to enrol girls in school. Similarly, the weak targeting of government spending on health care to poor households in Ghana was largely due to the refusal by poor households to allow women to access health care. Benefit incidence alone cannot explain outcomes, since these are also subject to (gender dependent) household decisions. Thus, budget analysts must go beyond benefit incidence to consider gender relations in households.
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