The place of education and health expenditures in public spending

This work highlights the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of public social spending allocated in the budget to fight poverty in Cameroon. Not only is the volume of these expenditures too low to hope to achieve the expected effect, i.e., to increase the human development index and its components, but the failure to take into account the microeconomic approach that advocates endogenization of inclusive growth is also lacking. The expected effect of public spending on education and health on improving the living conditions of the population remains negative, with the aggravation of ills such as corruption and bad governance. It is a reality to think that increasing the share of the national budget to education by 20 percent and to health by 15 percent, in accordance with the commitments made with UNESCO and the WHO, produces a significantly positive effect of this expenditure. It is also a utopia to think that poverty can be reduced by a flat application of the great macroeconomic theories.

Autorentext

Dr Ndoh Ndzié Joseph, professor de investigação e inspector orçamental reformado desde 2021. D. em ciências de desenvolvimento aplicadas e uma pós-graduação em literatura francesa, francófona e comparativa. Trabalhou no Ministério da Economia e no Ministério das Finanças nos Camarões.