Public spending and outcomes: Does governance matter?

Abstract

Rajkumar and Swaroop examine the role of governance, public spending on primary education governance-measured by level of corruption and quality becomes effective in increasing primary education of bureaucracy-and ask how it affects the relationship attainment. These findings have important implications between public spending and outcomes. Their main for enhancing the development effectiveness of public innovation is to see if differences in efficacy of public spending. The lessons are particularly relevant for spending can be explained by quality of governance. The developing countries, where public spending on authors find that public health spending lowers child and education and health is relatively low, and the state of infant mortality rates in countries with good governance.governance is often poor. The results also indicate that as countries improve their This paper-a product of Public Services, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to better understand issues relating to effective service delivery. We thank Laura Schechter for useful comments and excellent research assistance. We received helpful comments from Roberta Gatti, Steve Knack, Lant Pritchett and seminar participants the World Bank.

Determinants of Child Mortality in Africa: A Methodological Discussion

“…2008). Several previous studies failed to find a significant effect (for example see Filmer and Pritchett 1999;Rajkumar and Swaroop 2008) while some report contradictory results (i.e. very significant effect) (Bokhari, Gai and Gottret 2007).…”

“…al. 2001;Bokhari, Gai and Gottret 2007;Rajkumar and Swaroop 2008;Anyanwu and Erhijakpor 2009;Darcin 2013). …”

“…Therefore, this study includes both public and private health expenditures in all the models. It should be noted that from theoretical point of view, researchers have disagreed about whether public and private sectors are substitutes (Rajkumar and Swaroop 2008) or play different roles in the provision of health care (Musgrove 1996;Scott 2001). …”

“…For example, this lack of consensus can be seen with regards to under five mortality rate (U5MR), as Bokhari, Gai and Gottret (2007) report elasticity of -0.33 for U5MR with respect to public health expenditure, compared to other researchers (e.g. see: Filmer and Pritchett 1999;Rajkumar and Swaroop 2008) who report a very small and statistically insignificant effect for this variable in reducing U5MR.…”

Competition and Cooperation in Economics and Business

“…There have been many empirical studies showing the positive impact of government spending on education outcomes, such as prominent studies conducted by Gupta et al (2002), and Rajkumar and Swaroop (2008). However, there are studies that show little or no impact of government spending on education outcomes.…”