Notes on the impact of the HIPC initiative on public expenditures in education and health in African countries

Abstract

This Note is a partial stocktaking of the impact of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative on the education and health sectors. A complete examination would focus on three areas; first, changes in sectoral expenditures, second the nature of the system-wide reforms which are integral to the Initiative and which aim to improve the efficiency and equity of total expenditures, and third the impact of these additional expenditures and reforms. As a first step, the focus of this Note is on changes in sectoral expenditures, though some consideration is given to the specific role of the HIPC process on improving the efficiency and equity of existing expenditures. For consistency, all of the country specific data on education and health expenditures are taken from a variety of IMF publications and from a new expenditure database being constructed by the World Bank.

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