Publication: Ukraine - Improving Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Public Health and Education Expenditure Policy : Selected Issues
Date
2008-02
ISSN
Published
2008-02
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This report concerns improving
intergovernmental fiscal relations and public health and
education expenditure policy in Ukraine. The large amount of
resources the budget spends on services such as health and
education, through its local government do not obtain good
value. This is due to the acute inefficiency of service
provision in these sectors, which generates under-spending
on quality-enhancing expenditures and investments. The local
governments are essential in providing and financing
services such as health and education, and in channeling
public investments across the country, and thus reforms in
these sectors need to go hand-in-hand with intergovernmental
fiscal reforms. Despite their large role in allocating
spending, the ability of local governments to determine
spending structure and to allocate expenditures within
sectors is quite limited. The government needs to improve
resource allocation by strengthening its intergovernmental
fiscal system and by creating sufficient fiscal savings
within the current fiscal envelopes of the health and
education sectors in order to re-allocate these savings
towards quality enhancing expenditures and investments
within each sector.
Citation
“World Bank. 2008. Ukraine - Improving Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Public Health and Education Expenditure Policy : Selected Issues. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/80286236-7309-5083-830d-ef6c2055fb2c License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”