Fiscal Decentralization and Delivery of Public Services: Evidence from Education Sector in Pakistan

Rauf, Abdur; Khan, Amara Akram; Ali, Sher; Qureshi, Ghulam Yahya; Ahmad, Dilshad; Anwar, Numera

doi:10.1515/sbe-2017-0013

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“…Conversely, according to Young (1992); " Kim and Lau (1994); Ben and Spiegel (1994)"; Young (1995) TFP growth was result of growth of factor accumulation. But the studies like Romer, andWeil (1992) Islam (1995); Miller and Upadhya (2000) and Rauf et al, (2017) opinioned human capital has significant effect on total factor productivity.…”

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Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth of Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Khan¹,

Muhammad²,

Mehboob³

2020

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Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth of Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Khan¹,

Muhammad²,

Mehboob³

2020

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“…Though the study revealed that teaching quality was not maintained despite the tendency of sub-national governments to increase funds allocated to education, all the same, there was evidence of positive effect on local social needs. Rauf et al (2017) employed annual time series data from 1972-2009 to examine the effect of fiscal decentralization on education sector in Pakistan. Using education as proxy for public service delivery, the study found support for fiscal decentralization theory that devolution of expenditure responsibilities among all levels of government advances public service delivery because school enrollment in Pakistan generally improved as economic regionalization is being implemented.…”

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Fiscal Devolution and Human Capital Formation in Nigeria: Emphasis on Independent Generated Funds of the Three Tiers of Government

Omodero¹

2019

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The benefits of human capital in a nation are enormous and all encompassing. This study investigates the impact of independent generated revenue of the three tiers of government in Nigeria on human capital formation from 2003 to 2017. The purpose is to determine the effect of internally generated revenue of each level of government on human beings in the country. Revenue powers of three tiers of government in Nigeria are the product of fiscal decentralization being practiced in the country. Thus, Ordinary Least Square technique has been employed to perform the multi-regression analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The findings indicate that federal and local governments’ independent generated funds do not have significant positive impact on human capital development while the state government independent generated revenue exerts significant positive influence on human development index used as proxy for human capital formation in Nigeria. Therefore, the study recommends among others that the three levels of government in the country should strive harder to boost independent revenues for more adequate investment in human capital of the nation.

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“…Fiscal decentralization in Pakistan can lead to promote pro-poor sectors including healthcare reducing poverty in the country (Ahmed, 2013). Fiscal decentralization, in the long run, has positive impacts on the improvement of public services delivery in Pakistan as it has significantly increased the gross enrolment at primary level in the country (Rauf et al, 2017). The 7 th NFC Award supported by the 18 th constitutional amendment in Pakistan has empowered the local governments which may address key national issues like regional inequity and lower social indicators (Nabi & Shaikh, 2010).…”

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Implications of the 7th NFC Award on Health Services in Pakistan

Khan¹,

Malik²,

Malik³

2021

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Fiscal decentralization is aimed to improve Public Services Delivery as the subnational governments get control of additional revenue and expenditures responsibilities and are in a better position to provide basic services to the local people. The 7th NFC Award is considered as a big step toward fiscal federalism wherein the criteria for horizontal and vertical distribution of resources has been changed to accommodate major demands of the federating units. This research paper has been an attempt to identify that to what extent the new fiscal arrangements under the 7th NFC Award has been successful to improve health services delivery in Pakistan. For this study data on various health indicators has been collected for the period 2001 to 2019 divided into two groups i.e., pre 7th NFC period (2001 to 2010) and post 7th NFC Award period (2011 to 2019). To identify the impact of 7th NFC Award on health services delivery in Pakistan various variables were selected including Infant Mortality, Under Five Years’ Mortality, Life Expectancy at Birth and Health Expenditures (%GDP) as dependent or endogenous variables at national level whereas for comparison at provincial level Life expectancy at birth and Under Five Years mortality were used as dependent variables. The variables were tested at the national level as well as the provincial level and interprovincial comparison was also performed. For the analysis purpose different techniques for trend analysis were applied including the Chow breakpoint test, recursive coefficient, Wald-Coefficient Restriction test, Equality of Variance test, trend estimates, Durbin Watson Test and Forecast analysis. Additionally, the Difference-in-Difference approach was also applied to compare other provinces as treatment groups i.e., Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan with Punjab as a control group. The results suggest health indicators have responded positively to the additional funds’ transfer and Life expectancy at birth, Infant mortality and Under Five years’ mortality have improved at national level. Life expectancy and under five years’ mortality has generally improved in all provinces except for life expectancy in KP. While comparing the performance of other provinces with Punjab it is found that life expectancy at birth, infant mortality and Under Five years’ mortality have improved in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while Baluchistan did not improve health indicators in comparison to Punjab. However, to realize further benefits of the fiscal decentralization it is suggested that additional fund transfer is not a sufficient factor to bring change and should be complemented by administrative and legislative actions on part of the government. Innovations and the role of the private sector are crucial in improving public services delivery in health sector. Moreover, the capacity of the government machinery and the ability to develop plans and strategies is important to realize the benefits of the fiscal decentralization by the provinces.

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Fiscal Decentralization and Delivery of Public Services: Evidence from Education Sector in Pakistan

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth of Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth of Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Fiscal Devolution and Human Capital Formation in Nigeria: Emphasis on Independent Generated Funds of the Three Tiers of Government

Implications of the 7th NFC Award on Health Services in Pakistan

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