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Equity in Education Expenditure in Thailand

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  • José Cuesta
  • Lucia Madrigal

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type="main"> This article analyses the distributional effects of education spending across regions of Thailand, a country that purportedly seeks to reduce regional welfare disparities through decentralisation. It finds that public expenditure on education is neither progressive nor pro-poor, although there are sizeable regional differences, driven by the pro-rich distributional profiles of public tertiary education spending and public transfers to private education. Policy-wise, these results suggest that the current decentralised allocation of educational spending is not consistent with an equity-enhancing goal.

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  • José Cuesta & Lucia Madrigal, 2014. "Equity in Education Expenditure in Thailand," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 32(2), pages 239-258, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:32:y:2014:i:2:p:239-258
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