Benefit Incidence Analysis of Government Spending on Education in Anambra State, Nigeria.

Abstract

Education services have been identified as one of the most important services the poor need to escape from poverty. Governments generally devote significant portion of her budget to provision of education services in developing countries. This study employed the non-behavioural method of benefit incidence analysis to assess how equitably government expenditure in education has been well targeted across households and gender in Anambra state, Nigeria. The study found that primary and secondary education were absolutely progressive across households, absolute progressive for female and just progressive for male primary education spending, while secondary education spending is just progressive across both sexes. Among other policies, strict implementation of the compulsory free basic education as stated in the National Policy on Education was recommended.

Keywords: Benefit incidence analysis, progressivity, concentration curve, public expenditure, education.