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The benefit–incidence of public spending: the Caribbean experience
Author(s) -
Gafar John
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1233
Subject(s) - subsidy , public spending , health spending , principal (computer security) , economics , economic growth , incidence (geometry) , public economics , development economics , health care , business , political science , health insurance , politics , computer science , law , market economy , operating system , physics , optics
This paper shows that public spending on basic services, to wit, primary and secondary education and basic health care benefit the poor; while the non‐poor are the principal beneficiaries of tertiary and education subsidies and hospital spending. The evidence also shows that expenditures on infrastructure spending in the Caribbean benefit the non‐poor disproportionately more than the poor. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.