期刊名称：International Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN：1833-3850
电子版ISSN：1833-8119
出版年度：2010
卷号：5
期号：12
页码：116
DOI：10.5539/ijbm.v5n12p116
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：Investing in education and healthcare is one of the suggested ways the poor can escape from poverty, if properly targeted. The two sectors (education and heaathcare) in Nigeria have experienced various forms of subsidies but surprisingly, the poverty situation in Nigeria aside from deepening has been severe, pervasive and multi-dimensional with the female folk mostly affected by all counts. Based on the above argument, the study assessed how equitably public expenditure in education and healthcare have been well targeted by gender. The study employed the welfare dominance tests to determine the incidence of expenditure and how subsidy has been beneficial to men and women alike. The study found that primary education was absolutely progressive for both sexes while primary healthcare subsidies were just progressive. Interestingly, secondary education was only progressive for female while tertiary education and healthcare for both male and female were regressive and not pro poor.
