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But an aid boost needs to go hand in hand with a pledge by governments in developing countries to get serious about tackling social disparities through more equitable public spending, targeted support in health and education, and strengthened social protection.
UNESCO: Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses
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But since the early 1990s education spending has become much more progressive, with a huge expansion in public secondary education among the poor.
ECONOMIST: An unequal continent is becoming less so
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"In 2010-11 we were spending more on welfare than on education, health and defence combined, " she said.
BBC: Local Government Finance Bill part one
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The city cited increases in crime rates, more gang activity, higher spending on bilingual education at its public schools and on health care, and various other expenses, with no offsetting rise in tax revenues.
ECONOMIST: A powerful precedent is set
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On average, education accounts for more than 18% of all public spending in sub-Saharan Africa compared to 15% in other regions.
UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative
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In short, the big push to increase higher education spending is based more on ideology and misplaced faith than on solid evidence.
FORBES: Reducing State Higher Ed Spending Is Not Foolhardy
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In Tanzania, the government devotes three times more to debt-servicing than to education, on which spending has dropped two-thirds in a decade.
ECONOMIST: No school, no future
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The DfE says that, despite a 60% cut in education capital spending over the next four years, the coalition is still spending more per year on school building work than the previous government did in its first two terms.
BBC: Lambeth 'running out of space' for primary children
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Women are far more supportive of increased spending on welfare, education, and healthcare and overall support a bigger safety net in bad times.
FORBES: Slammed by Job Loss, 'Waitress Moms' Pull Away From GOP
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The notion that even if it does not promote growth more university spending is needed to equalize economic opportunity, is not supported by the evidence (the vast expansion in university education in the last 40 years has been accompanied by a widening, not a narrowing, in the income distribution), but a lengthy discussion of that must await future essays.
FORBES: Reducing State Higher Ed Spending Is Not Foolhardy