The Distribution of Subsidies through Public Health Services in Indonesia, 1978-87 |
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| Authors: | van de Walle Dominique |
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| Institution: | Dominique van de Walle is with the Policy Research Department at the World Bank. The author gratefully acknowledges support from RPO 67642. The author thanks Anupa Bhaumik for her research assistance; Anil Deolalikar and Benu Bedani for providing tabulated data; and Shankar Acharya, Emmanuel Jimenez, Paul Gertler, Samuel Lieberman, Kim Nead, Nicholas Prescott, Martin Ravallion, and the referees for helpful comments. |
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| Abstract: | Indonesia has made great progress during the past fifteen yearsin enhancing the command of the poor over privately providedgoods, such as food, clothing, and housing. Has similar progressbeen made in improving their access to publicly provided socialservices? The article looks at how the use of health servicesand the incidence of subsidies in the health sector varied acrosssocioeconomic groups in Indonesia in 1987. It also examineshow the distributions of utilization and subsidies altered between1978 and 1987. The findings indicate that changes in utilizationpatterns and in the incidence of subsidies have been pro-poor.Disparities in access and utilization have diminished. However,public spending on health care is not yet well targeted. |
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