QUESTION 2 The Table below presents a hypothetical distribution of government expenditures for i) primary health care an

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QUESTION
2
The Table below presents a hypothetical distribution of government
expenditures for i)
primary health care and ii) cancer treatment expenditures in County
X, a poor country in
the global south. You have been hired as a health economist to
analyze the progressivity
of the two (2) programmes and provide sound advice to health sector
stakeholders on
how the two programmes could be improved.
Quintiles
Population
Primary
Healthcare
Cancer
Treatment
Concentration
Share
Concentration
Share
(share -
%)
US$
US$
PHC
Cancer
Bottom
20%
20%
2,755,229
632,138
X
X
2
20%
1,713,398
1,000,855
X
X
3
20%
883,841
1,468,638
X
X
4
20%
1,050,439
2,287,489
X
X
Top
20%
20%
279,024
5,928,116
X
X
Total
6,681,931
11,317,235
Answer the following
questions:
A. Calculate the concentration coefficients
(or concentration shares) for each of the programmes

B. Based on (B) above, what percentage of the
programme benefits accrue to the
bottom 60% of the population?
C. In relation to the population shares,
which programme(s) would you classify as
relatively more progressive/regressive and why?

D. What would you do to improve the
progressivity of the least progressive
programme identified in (C) above?