The chapter is divided into three sections. Section I is an attempt to spell out thevarious components of the HDI such as literacy rate of the state of Meghalaya and theinfant mortality rate, which refiects the level of human development. The purpose of thesection is to have a comparative picture on the growth rate of the public expenditure onhealth and education and the various components of Human Development for the state ofMeghalaya. We believe that a comparison between these variables will provide thedesired base in undertaking the empirical analysis in the subsequent section of thischapter. In Section II, an attempt is made to specify the models for undertaking theempirical analysis and the results obtained by using the specified models are reportedsubsequently. In order to substantỉate the result obtained in section II, an attempt is madein Section 111 to analyze the trend of public expenditure in basic social sector inMeghalaya and also to find out the four government expenditure ratios` viz., the PublicExpenditure Ratio (PER), the Social Allocation ratio (SAR), the Social Prỉority Ratio(SPR), and the Human Expenditure Ratio (HER) as according to norms laỉd down by theUNDP’s Human Development report 1991.
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