Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh

Government shares of the total recurring budget of public universities and public degree colleges are very high. The paper analyzes equity effect of government subsidy among the students of poor and non-poor household in Bangladesh in 2005. Benefit incidence analysis is done and gini coefficient is...

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1. Verfasser: Mamun, Md. Shamsul Arifeen Khan
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spelling 10361-4412019-09-29T05:47:27Z Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh Mamun, Md. Shamsul Arifeen Khan Vertical equity Poor and non-poor students Gross enrollment Public subsidy Gini-coefficient Government shares of the total recurring budget of public universities and public degree colleges are very high. The paper analyzes equity effect of government subsidy among the students of poor and non-poor household in Bangladesh in 2005. Benefit incidence analysis is done and gini coefficient is estimated using data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005. The resulted is compared with previous findings of the year 1996. Gini coefficient shows that higher education opportunity still favors the reach. Over the last five years with increasing enrollment in public universities and degree colleges, inequality has been increased slightly. 2010-10-11T04:23:45Z 2010-10-11T04:23:45Z 2008 Article http://hdl.handle.net/10361/441 en BRAC University Journal, BRAC University;Vol.5, No.2,pp. 23-29 application/pdf BRAC University
institution Brac University
collection Institutional Repository
language English
topic Vertical equity
Poor and non-poor students
Gross enrollment
Public subsidy
Gini-coefficient
spellingShingle Vertical equity
Poor and non-poor students
Gross enrollment
Public subsidy
Gini-coefficient
Mamun, Md. Shamsul Arifeen Khan
Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
description Government shares of the total recurring budget of public universities and public degree colleges are very high. The paper analyzes equity effect of government subsidy among the students of poor and non-poor household in Bangladesh in 2005. Benefit incidence analysis is done and gini coefficient is estimated using data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005. The resulted is compared with previous findings of the year 1996. Gini coefficient shows that higher education opportunity still favors the reach. Over the last five years with increasing enrollment in public universities and degree colleges, inequality has been increased slightly.
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author Mamun, Md. Shamsul Arifeen Khan
author_facet Mamun, Md. Shamsul Arifeen Khan
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title Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
title_short Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
title_full Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in Bangladesh
title_sort vertical equity effect of subsidy to higher education in bangladesh
publisher BRAC University
publishDate 2010
url http://hdl.handle.net/10361/441
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