Effectiveness of Education Public Expenditure in Bangladesh: A Survey Study on Fifty Primary Schools in Four Administrative Districts

Abstract

Public expenditure in the primary education sector of Bangladesh is not meeting itspredesigned goalsfor many reasons. To realize some impediments, in this study, a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) was conducted taking the primary education sub-sector as a test case. To understand the levels of accountability and transparency in expenditure, a Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (QSDS) was performed along with the PETS study. Primary data was gathered with the help of the above surveys.The findings of the studyindicated that the level of effectiveness of government expenditure in the said sector is low.