How corruption diminishes the effectiveness of public spending on education in Indonesia

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ID8415900
AutoresDaniel Suryadarma (0000-0003-1530-881X, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas85-100
Fecha de publicación2012-04-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2012.654485
OpenAlexW2036033030
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas28

This paper takes advantage of a regional corruption measure to assess the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of public spending in the education sector in Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Two sets of outcomes are considered: school enrolment rates and school performance in national examinations. Public spending appears to have a negligible effect on school enrolment in highly corrupt regions, but a statistically significant, positive and relatively large effect in less corrupt regions. In contrast, public spending has no significant effect on school performance. The main lesson from this paper is that pouring more public funds into the education system is unlikely to bring about improvement unless it is accompanied by efforts to improve governance in the sector

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government spending · Language change · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public spending · Corruption and Economic Development · Economic Growth and Development · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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