Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire

This study analyzes opportunities for children in Cote d'Ivoire, where opportunities refer to access to basic services and goods that improve the likelihood of a child maximizing his or her human potential. The principle that guides this analy...

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Main Authors:	Abras, Ana, Cuesta, Jose, Hoyos, Alejandro, Narayan, Ambar
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO GOODS ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCESS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION AGE GROUPS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CASH TRANSFERS CHILD EDUCATION CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL CONFLICT CLEAN WATER COMPLETION RATES DECISION MAKING DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIGNITY DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISTRIBUTION OF ACCESS DROPOUT DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ELDERLY EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ETHNIC GROUP FEMALE FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS FEMALES FIRST GRADE FREEDOM OF CHOICE GENDER GIRLS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HIGH INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CONFLICT INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME QUINTILE INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION KIDS LIVING STANDARDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPENDING RADIO READING RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL FEMALE RURAL GIRLS RURAL RESIDENCE SAFE DRINKING WATER SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SCARCE RESOURCES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL YEARS SOCIAL PROGRESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIETY SPOUSE TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEENAGERS TELEVISION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBANIZATION VIOLENCE VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE GROUPS WAR WILL YOUTH
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topic	ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO GOODS ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCESS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION AGE GROUPS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CASH TRANSFERS CHILD EDUCATION CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL CONFLICT CLEAN WATER COMPLETION RATES DECISION MAKING DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIGNITY DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISTRIBUTION OF ACCESS DROPOUT DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ELDERLY EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ETHNIC GROUP FEMALE FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS FEMALES FIRST GRADE FREEDOM OF CHOICE GENDER GIRLS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HIGH INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CONFLICT INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME QUINTILE INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION KIDS LIVING STANDARDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPENDING RADIO READING RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL FEMALE RURAL GIRLS RURAL RESIDENCE SAFE DRINKING WATER SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SCARCE RESOURCES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL YEARS SOCIAL PROGRESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIETY SPOUSE TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEENAGERS TELEVISION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBANIZATION VIOLENCE VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE GROUPS WAR WILL YOUTH
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO GOODS ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCESS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION AGE GROUPS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CASH TRANSFERS CHILD EDUCATION CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL CONFLICT CLEAN WATER COMPLETION RATES DECISION MAKING DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIGNITY DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISTRIBUTION OF ACCESS DROPOUT DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ELDERLY EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ETHNIC GROUP FEMALE FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS FEMALES FIRST GRADE FREEDOM OF CHOICE GENDER GIRLS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HIGH INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CONFLICT INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME QUINTILE INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION KIDS LIVING STANDARDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPENDING RADIO READING RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL FEMALE RURAL GIRLS RURAL RESIDENCE SAFE DRINKING WATER SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SCARCE RESOURCES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL YEARS SOCIAL PROGRESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIETY SPOUSE TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEENAGERS TELEVISION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBANIZATION VIOLENCE VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE GROUPS WAR WILL YOUTH Abras, Ana Cuesta, Jose Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
geographic_facet	Africa Cote d'Ivoire
relation	Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6048
description	This study analyzes opportunities for children in Cote d'Ivoire, where opportunities refer to access to basic services and goods that improve the likelihood of a child maximizing his or her human potential. The principle that guides this analysis is one of equality of opportunity, which is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine his or her access to opportunities. The analysis computes the Human Opportunity Index, which measures the extent to which access to basic services is universal and evenly distributed among children of different circumstances. Opportunities are limited in Cote d'Ivoire, despite some improvements in access to electricity and timely access to primary education. Otherwise, trends on access remain stagnant. Scale effects (variations across the board) are behind these trends, with little improvement observed from equalizing interventions. Circumstances such as region and household head characteristics affect a child's access to opportunities, while household incomes and a child's gender and ethnicity play a relatively small role in access differentials. Public spending on education opportunities is shown to be regressive and pro-rich, especially when analyzed across the distribution of circumstances rather than acroos income level.The groups of children that are particularly behind in terms of educational opportunities are those whose household heads lack primary education and reside in rural areas. Closing the enrollment gap of these children should be a priority for targeted educational interventions. However, improving opportunities may require more than a single type of intervention: opportunities with low coverage may need to be scaled up, while those with large inequalities of access may require equalizing interventions.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Abras, Ana Cuesta, Jose Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar
author_facet	Abras, Ana Cuesta, Jose Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar
author_sort	Abras, Ana
title	Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
title_short	Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
title_full	Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
title_fullStr	Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
title_full_unstemmed	Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire
title_sort	equality of opportunities and fiscal incidence in cote d'ivoire
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16237531/equality-opportunities-fiscal-incidence-cote-divoire-equality-opportunities-fiscal-incidence-cote-divoire http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6051
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spelling	okr-10986-60512021-04-23T14:02:24Z Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire Abras, Ana Cuesta, Jose Hoyos, Alejandro Narayan, Ambar ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO GOODS ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCESS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION AGE GROUPS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CASH TRANSFERS CHILD EDUCATION CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL CONFLICT CLEAN WATER COMPLETION RATES DECISION MAKING DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIGNITY DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISTRIBUTION OF ACCESS DROPOUT DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ELDERLY EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ETHNIC GROUP FEMALE FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS FEMALES FIRST GRADE FREEDOM OF CHOICE GENDER GIRLS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS HIGH INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CONFLICT INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME QUINTILE INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION KIDS LIVING STANDARDS NUMBER OF CHILDREN POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY ENROLLMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPENDING RADIO READING RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL FEMALE RURAL GIRLS RURAL RESIDENCE SAFE DRINKING WATER SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SCARCE RESOURCES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL YEARS SOCIAL PROGRESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIETY SPOUSE TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEENAGERS TELEVISION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBANIZATION VIOLENCE VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE GROUPS WAR WILL YOUTH This study analyzes opportunities for children in Cote d'Ivoire, where opportunities refer to access to basic services and goods that improve the likelihood of a child maximizing his or her human potential. The principle that guides this analysis is one of equality of opportunity, which is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine his or her access to opportunities. The analysis computes the Human Opportunity Index, which measures the extent to which access to basic services is universal and evenly distributed among children of different circumstances. Opportunities are limited in Cote d'Ivoire, despite some improvements in access to electricity and timely access to primary education. Otherwise, trends on access remain stagnant. Scale effects (variations across the board) are behind these trends, with little improvement observed from equalizing interventions. Circumstances such as region and household head characteristics affect a child's access to opportunities, while household incomes and a child's gender and ethnicity play a relatively small role in access differentials. Public spending on education opportunities is shown to be regressive and pro-rich, especially when analyzed across the distribution of circumstances rather than acroos income level.The groups of children that are particularly behind in terms of educational opportunities are those whose household heads lack primary education and reside in rural areas. Closing the enrollment gap of these children should be a priority for targeted educational interventions. However, improving opportunities may require more than a single type of intervention: opportunities with low coverage may need to be scaled up, while those with large inequalities of access may require equalizing interventions. 2012-04-27T07:44:40Z 2012-04-27T07:44:40Z 2012-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16237531/equality-opportunities-fiscal-incidence-cote-divoire-equality-opportunities-fiscal-incidence-cote-divoire http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6051 English Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6048 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Cote d'Ivoire

Equality of Opportunities and Fiscal Incidence in Cote d'Ivoire

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