PHA-Exchange> Education and Health Expenditure

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> "Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa:
Madagascar and Tanzania"

>
http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-notheme-7-no-15-36104-0,00.ht
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> ".......In the context of four of the OECD Development Assistance
> Committee's (DAC) development objectives -- reducing extreme poverty;
> providing universal primary education; lowering infant and maternal
> mortality; and transmitting health -- . The authors demonstrate that in
the
> case of very poor countries, policies aimed at universal provision of
> education and health services benefit the poor significantly more than
more
> expensive targeted schemes. The book draws attention to the absolute need
> for coherence and co-ordination so that schools are not built without
> teachers and dispensaries without drugs. Moreover, national macroeconomic
> policies have to be realistic if the health and education sectors are not
to
> be deprived of resources. Finally, the quality of governance is shown to
> have a direct effect on the efficiency of social spending......"
>
> Contact Information:
> Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
> e-mail  hbsl at oecd.org