Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines

Abstract

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