Papua New Guinea Public Expenditure and Service Delivery
This report is the outcome of a study of public spending and service delivery issues in Papua New Guinea (PNG) undertaken as part of the work on the PNG Poverty Assessment. The study itself is the result of a collaborative effort involving several...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/671201520409280562/Main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29572 |
| Summary: | This report is the outcome of a study of
public spending and service delivery issues in Papua New
Guinea (PNG) undertaken as part of the work on the PNG
Poverty Assessment. The study itself is the result of a
collaborative effort involving several agencies and
organizations including the National Research Institute, the
National Department of Education, the Department of National
Planning and Rural Development (DNPRD), AusAID and the World
Bank. The PESD study is undertaken in a challenging economic
and social context for PNG with growing concerns about
delivery of basic services. The PNG economy has been in a
state of recession since the mid-1990s with negative growth
in 7 of the last 9 years. The fiscal situation has been
compromised by large deficits. Debt-to-GDP ratio has risen
to levels where debt servicing is significant claim on total
revenues. Poverty levels have been rising. A growing
imperative to contain levels of spending has raised
significant concerns for maintaining the level of basic
services while needs have grown, and it has also raised
pertinent questions about how effectively social spending is
translating into the actual delivery of services. The study
focuses on the education sector though its findings have
wider relevance. The problems that plague the education
sector have close parallels in other sectors. The report
presents some illustrative data for the health sector for
which a limited amount of primary information was collected,
but the study’s inquiry into conditions promoting or
impeding effective service delivery in education has broader
relevance for other sectors in PNG, and beyond that for
other countries too. |
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