Analisis Pengaruh Belanja Sektor Pendidikan Dan Kesehatan Terhadap Kualitas Sumberdaya Manusia Di Papua Barat

Abstract

Local Government Budget (Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Daerah/APBD) of West Papua Province in the last decade has continued to increase. However, the percentage of poor people in West Papua Province is still in the 2nd lowest rank in the same period. This study aims to examine the effect of spending on education and health on the quality of human resources in West Papua. The data used is panel data from 12 districts and 1 city in West Papua Province from 2014-2019. Multiple regression model with fixed effect at district/city level was used to estimate data. The results of the analysis show that education and health sector spending has a positive impact on improving the quality of human resources as measured by human development index (HDI). Variable GRDP per capita shows a positive contribution to the increase in HDI. PAD per capita did not significantly contribute to the increase in HDI. Meanwhile, the variable percentage of poor people (P0) shows a negative and significant contribution to HDI.