Government education spending is expected to improve the wellbeing
of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in
the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor
holds a promise for breaking the intergenerational transmission of
poverty. Given this perspective, this paper addresses the question: To
what extent has the poor benefited from government spending on
education? In particular, it uses benefit incidence analysis to evaluate
whether expenditures on education had redistributive impact.