TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributional impact of public expenditure on human development in Nigeria
AU - Edeme, Richardson Kojo
AU - Nkalu, Chigozie Nelson
AU - Ifelunini, Innocent A.
PY - 2017/12/4
Y1 - 2017/12/4
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development, energy, housing, environmental protection and portable water resources are employed as predictors of human development. The result reveals that expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact on human development. In contrast, the marginal impact of energy, housing and environmental protection is negative. Among the sectors, education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources expenditure has positive marginal impact while energy, housing and environmental protection have decreasing marginal impact on human development.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development, energy, housing, environmental protection and portable water resources are employed as predictors of human development. The result reveals that expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact on human development. In contrast, the marginal impact of energy, housing and environmental protection is negative. Among the sectors, education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources expenditure has positive marginal impact while energy, housing and environmental protection have decreasing marginal impact on human development.
KW - Environmental protection
KW - Fixed effect
KW - Human development
KW - National economy
KW - Public expenditure
KW - Random effect
KW - Rural development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85033438187&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/IJSE-05-2016-0152
DO - 10.1108/IJSE-05-2016-0152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85033438187
VL - 44
SP - 1683
EP - 1693
JO - International Journal of Social Economics
JF - International Journal of Social Economics
SN - 0306-8293
IS - 12
ER -
