Equality of Opportunities, Redistribution and Fiscal Policies : The Case of Liberia
This paper brings back the fiscal angle to the analysis of equal opportunities both by connecting traditional benefit-incidence analysis of public spending with equal opportunities and by conducting ex-ante micro-simulations on the fiscal cost of e...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110920131058 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3565 |
| Summary: | This paper brings back the fiscal angle
to the analysis of equal opportunities both by connecting
traditional benefit-incidence analysis of public spending
with equal opportunities and by conducting ex-ante
micro-simulations on the fiscal cost of equal opportunity
policies in education. Four simulations are conducted in
Liberia, a country devastated by a civil war, with serious
educational enrollment gaps and fiscal policies highly
dependent on international aid. Results for the simulated
policy scenarios (increases in teachers' salaries,
elimination of both fee and non-fee costs borne by
households, and targeting public spending on education to
rural schools) point to very modest redistributive effects
but very different patterns of winners and losers among
groups of children in Liberia. |
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