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Show 173 Table 42: Share of Regional Governments' Expenditure on Education, Social Services, 1993/94-2000/01 Education Health Social Services 1993/94 74.1 81.4 63.7 1994/95 1995/96 76.9 85.5 71.6 70.3 84.1 71.5 1996/97 77.0 79.7 74.5 1997/98 77.1 86.4 75.7 1998/99 74.8 83.6 74.5 1999/00 78.6 87.6 72.7 2000/01 75.9 68.1 69.9 Average 75.6 82.1 72.0 Year Source: World Bank in (various issues). to the individual question consumer. concerned with this fundamental Ideally, the benefits of publicly at the individual's virtual or household's own Most of the literature has been problem. (Demery 2000, p. 2) provided goods and services should be evaluated valuation of the good Selden et al. or service, his/her demand- the fact that such prices will vary from individual to individual makes the estimation of these valuations inherently or price (Demery 2000; difficult. Hence, the approaches, . Health and cost. literature has instead focused publicly provided goods The methods most often found in approaches' al. in which (welfarist) 1995). and 'benefit incidence The first question. They requiring, for emphasize are 1995). However, and services practice can measure individual well founded in micro economic example, knowledge of the underlying demanding valued at their marginal be classified into 'behavioral analysis' (Demery 2000; the need to are less on van de Well 1998; Selden et preferences theory, but are for the data goods in demanding, demand functions of individuals or |
