The (mis) allocation of public spending in a low income country: Evidence from disaster risk reduction spending in Bangladesh

摘要: Rational allocation of limited public resources is critical to achieve the stated aims government programmes. Here, we focus on regional spending for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh as a case study identify rationale that guides funding allocations. It well understood any government’s decision-making also affected by considerations other than need, and our objective this paper all directly observable determinants’ publicly allocated realized at local (sub-district) level. We employ Heckman two-stage selection model with detailed finance data from 483 sub-districts (upazilas) across country. While some results conform priors, estimations surprisingly find does not respond sub-district’s exposure factor affecting DRR financing mechanism. This variable consistently counter-intuitively negative statistically significant. The allocations do seem be determined exposure, only weakly vulnerability, nor even more transparent political economy motivations. surprising, program considered poster-child investments.