The Impact of Fiscal Restraint on Budgetary Allocations for Women's Programs

How did the fiscal restraints exercised during the time of fiscal difficulties in 1997-2003 affect the gender/women-targeted programs of the Philippine government? What does a close scrutiny of the government budget reveal regarding the implicit gender implications of such restraints? Manasan and Villanueva disclose some of their findings.budget analysis, gender analysis, women's programs

Looking Closely on Who Benefits from Public Subsidies in Health Care: a Gender Perspective

Do men benefit more than women from government expenditures in health care? Or do women have the upper hand? Using a sex-differentiated incidence analysis of the various Department of Health program expenditures, this Notes' authors assess who indeed benefits from such expenditures in terms of gender. And why.gender, benefit incidence analysis, gender analysis, public spending in health, sex-differentiated incidence analysis

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the inter-generational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question: to what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.benefit incidence analysis, targeting, Gini coefficient, concentration coefficient, concentration curve, education, poverty reduction

Metro Iloilo Development Council: In Pursuit of Managed Urban Growth

This paper aims to present the experience of MIDC in its pursuit for “a highly livable region of God-loving and educated people working together for a progressive, self-reliant and sustainable community.” It provides the socioeconomic development in Iloilo City, MIDC’s core city and delves into urbanization issues and responses of Iloilo City in terms of resource mobilization and allocation, and delivery of basic services. It also gives a background on the creation of MIDC and highlights the experience of MIDC in working together towards the attainment of its vision.metropolitan arrangements, Metropolitan Iloilo Development Council (MIDC), Iloilo City, interlocal government cooperation, metropolitanization

Gems in LGU Fiscal Management: a Compilation of Good Practices

Recognizing that the lack of financial resources to support the provision of basic services and to fund local development plans is a critical concern at the local level to attain improvements in key human development outcomes, the paper discusses the different sources of LGU revenues, both traditional and nontraditional. Moreover, the study presents corresponding issues (e.g., complex tax structures) that hamper efficient revenue generation/mobilization and at the same time emphasizes that there is some scope for local initiative and for some LGUs to do better than others by presenting examples of “good practices” which show innovative ways of some LGUs to overcome these hurdles. From here, a menu of policy actions that is aimed at enhancing not just LGU revenue generation and mobilization but also strategic allocation was drawn.resource mobilization, revenue generation, LGU revenue sources, LGU good practices

The Impact of Fiscal Restraint on Budgetary Allocations for Women's Programs

The paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macroeconomic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of the national government in 1997-2003 on the budget allocations for programs that support gender equality and women’s priority public services in selected departments--Department of Health (DOH), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and Department of Education (DepEd). The analysis includes grouping the agencies’ programs, activities and projects (PAPs) into gender-relevant categories and tracking the impact of the overall contraction of national government expenditures on the expenditure obligations for these expenditure categories. At the same time, the study undertakes a gender-disaggregated benefit incidence analysis of the mainstream or untargeted expenditures of the selected departments. Lastly, the study emphasizes that budget analysis has to be better informed by gender analysis given that, even if there is no gender bias in the formal policies and procedures that govern the delivery of services of various government agencies, gender bias might result from the informal rules, attitudes and behavior not only of service providers but also that of the target clientele.budget analysis, benefit incidence analysis, gender analysis

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question: to what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.targeting, education, poverty reduction, benefit incidence analysis, Gini coefficient, concentration coefficient, concentration curve

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the inter-generational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question : to what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.benefit incidence analysis, targeting, Gini Coefficient, Concentration Coefficient, concentration curve, education, poverty reduction

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, this paper addresses the question: To what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.targeting, education, poverty reduction, Philippines, benefit incidence analysis, Gini coefficient, concentration coefficient, concentration curve

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Government education spending is expected to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, this paper addresses the question: To what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.targeting, education, poverty reduction, Philippines, benefit incidence analysis, Gini coefficient, concentration coefficient, concentration curve