Dominance Testing of Social Sector Expenditures and Taxes in Africa /

This paper examines the progressivity of social sector expenditures and taxes in eight sub-Saharan African countries. It uses dominance tests to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. The paper finds that social services are poorly targeted. Among the...

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第一著者: Sahn, David
その他の著者: Younger, Stephen
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/172
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF