Public Expenditure in the Education Sector in Uganda A Benefit Incidence Analysis (Phase 2)
- Madina Guloba
- Nov 2011
- Global Development Network (GDN), Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)
- International
This paper focuses on public spending in education sub-sector in Uganda. In particular, it investigates the extent to which public spending in the education sector has been pro-poor. The analysis draws largely on the Uganda National Household Survey of 2009/10. The benefit incidence analysis techniques was employed to examine the extent to which government recurrent expenditures in 2009/10 in the education sector were redistributed among the enrolled household members at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. Findings show that spending on primary education is on average pro-poor and progressive in rural areas and in the northern region. On the other hand, it is pro-rich in the urban areas and in the central and western region. Spending on secondary and tertiary education primarily benefits the non-poor and there is a strong evidence of middle-class capture. Thus, we recommend higher education scholarship programs and credit market development targeting the poor.
