Abstract

COAQUIRA VARGAS, Marisol Victoria  and  VILCA COLQUEHUANCA, Gustavo Luis. Effect of public health expenditure on poverty in the provinces of Peru. Rev. ciente. UCSA [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.3, pp.80-94. ISSN 2409-8752.  https://doi.org/10.18004/ucsa/2409-8752/2023.010.03.080.

The objective of the study was to determine if the execution of public capital spending on health has an effect on the reduction of monetary poverty at the level of the provinces of Peru in the years 2007 and 2018. The data was collected from Peruvian state institutions, and they were organized under the panel-data format. In total, we worked with information corresponding to 157 provinces. The results obtained indicate that there is a strong inequality in the execution of public capital spending on health (GINI index, 0.72), they also suggest that monetary poverty has had a more or less homogeneous decreasing trend. The fixed effects regression analysis confirms that the execution of public capital spending on health reduced poverty by (-0.0012685), corroborating the position that public investment in health is a factor that effectively contributes to poverty reduction.

Keywords : Inversión pública; gobiernos subnacionales; presupuesto en salud; capital humano; gobiernos locales.; Public investment; subnational governments; health budget; human capital; local governments.

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