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Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa
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Madagascar and Tanzania

http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-notheme-7-no-15-36104-0,00.html

".......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 provi-
sion 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. More-
over, national macroeconomic policies have to be realistic if the 
health and education sectors are not to be deprived of resources. Fi-
nally, the quality of governance is shown to have a direct effect on 
the efficiency of social spending......"

Contact Information:
Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
mailto:hbsl@oecd.org

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