Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87587 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Network Reports No. 97
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health in the Kyrgyz Republic in 2007-2010, when the country was hit by the global economic crisis and then by an internal political crisis in 2010. Despite these crisis conditions, public health expenditures have increased substantially. In education, recurrent expenditures have been protected, while capital investments have been cut dramatically. Both sectors suffer from chronic under-financing, which results in an insufficient quality of services. The country's fiscal situation in the medium-term is going to be difficult, so efficiency-oriented reforms need to be implemented in health care and especially in education in order to sustain the development of these critical services in Kyrgyzstan.
Subjects: 
Fiscal policy
Kyrgyzstan
Education financing
Health financing
Global economic crisis
JEL: 
E62
H50
H51
H52
I18
I22
ISBN: 
978-83-7178-540-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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