Education Finance: An Empirical Analysis And Policy Recommendations

At first, the thesis defines the concept of "public finance of education " ,then , on the base of China' s reality, the thesis makes an empirical and normative analysis . Above all, the thesis composes four parts: In part one, the author puts forward the problem of public finance of education. In part two, the author defines the concept of "public finance of education ". Public finance of education is an activity, in which government department collects and uses and administrates education expenditure in order to provide education services with the nature of public goods. In part three, the author makes an empirical analysis on the coursing of China ' s public finance of education for the last ten years. On the whole, the absolute scale of public finance of education is gradually increasing, but the relative scale is shrinking. The system of public finance of education and the structure of education expenditure are unreasonable. Though the total amount of education expenditure is insufficient, there is serious waste. In part four, the author suggests policy proposals as for the development of China ' s public finance of education during the period of fifteen plan. They are: reinforce government budget restriction; consummate the system of public finance of education; add the sources of income of public finance of education; reform the means of education grants; improve the administration of education expenditure.