The Willingness to Pay for Education in Developing Countries
Author : Paul Gertler
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education, Secondary
ISBN : 9780821312636
Author : Paul Gertler
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education, Secondary
ISBN : 9780821312636
Author : Christopher Colclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198292555
This book draws on evidence from a large number of developing countries to assess the impact of market reforms on the provision of education and health services. The contributors show that approaches that seek merely to pass more of their costs to consumers perform less well than is often claimed and that improved cost-effectiveness of health and education systems requires far more than changes in the sources and mechanisms of obtaining finance.
Author : Lyn Squire
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781007659
This book offers insights into the process of economic reform in developing countries. It is organized around three factors that are critical to the success of any reform. According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, these key dimensions are Reach, Range, and Reason. 'Reach' refers to the ability of reform to be person-centered and evenhanded, reaching all individuals in society. 'Range' considers the institutional reforms and policy changes necessary to implement change and the possible ripple effects on other policies and populations. Finally, 'Reason' captures the importance of constantly asking why a particular reform has been selected.
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780821307779
Education is an economically and socially productive investment. Therefore, the educational systems in developing countries must continue to improve in quality, in efficiency, and in equality of opportunity if they are to continue serving as important instruments for improving the national economy. Yet, budgetary austerity tightens the public purse-strings, ever increasing school-age populations stretch these dwindling resources, and other social and economic factors present compelling competition for the same funds. The heavy subsidization of education implicit in traditional policy--especially of higher education at the expense of primary schooling--with its concomitant economic inefficiencies and inequities is no longer appropriate. Supported by empirical evidence, this book examines the potential effects of policy alternatives in several areas of education financing and management: (1) The contribution of private financing and selective user changes, especially in higher education, and reallocation of public spending; (2) Selective student loan and scholarship programs in higher education; and (3) Decentralization and role of private and community schools. Implementation of these policies may be difficult because of conflicts with traditional educational and political philosophies, and established administrative institutions. Included are statistical tables, case studies, instances of reform, and a bibliography. (KWL)
Author : Hollis Burnley Chenery
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444823014
Handbooks of development economics/ edit. Chenery.-v.1.
Author : Mark Montgomery
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821331231
Annotation World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study No. 112. Assesses evidence of a negative correlation between the number of children born and levels of child schooling by examining their determinants. In many developing countries, as parents have fewer children, they invest more in the health, education, and welfare of each child. This "quantity-quality tradeoff" is vividly illustrated in the recent economic development of Southeast Asia and Latin America. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, the existence of such a tradeoff has not been established. The few studies conducted to date reveal either no correlation or a slightly positive one, whereby higher fertility rates are linked to greater schooling per child. This study examines the determinants of fertility and of child schooling in C te d'Ivoire and Ghana to assess evidence of a tradeoff, using data from three surveys conducted between 1985 and 1987. The results are mixed. In C te d'Ivoire, there is evidence of such a tradeoff in urban areas but not rural ones. In urban areas, female schooling, higher income, and improved child survival are associated with lower fertility and higher child schooling. In both rural and urban areas of Ghana, there is a tradeoff between fertility and child schooling with higher incomes, and, in rural Ghana, with increases in mothers' schooling. Also available in French ("La relation entre le nombre des enfants et de la scolarisation: Le cas de la C te d'Ivoire et du Ghana"): (ISBN 0-8213-3374-7) Stock No. 13374.
Author : Thomas M. Selden
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Budget
ISBN :
Benefit incidence analysis offers an important perspective on budgets and can illuminate the distributional impacts of proposed reallocations of government resources among projects.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1999-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309061911
This volume assesses the evidence, and possible mechanisms, for the associations between women's education, fertility preferences, and fertility in developing countries, and how these associations vary across regions. It discusses the implications of these associations for policies in the population, health, and education sectors, including implications for research.
Author : Kevin Watkins
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780855984281
This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform.
Author : Adrian Ziderman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135398860
Inadequate public funding means that governments in developing countries are continually working to find ways of expansion to meet the growth demand for higher education.; This book considers the effectiveness of government funding methods in developing quality and efficiency in higher education systems in developing countries, and looks at policy measures taken to widen the funding base including raising tuition fees, student loan programmes, graduate taxes, industry-education links and national service programmes.; Taking information from around the world and drawing on successful practice in developed countries, this volume should be of interest to specialists and researchers in education economics and economic development, academics in general education and those involved in the finance and administration of higher education.