Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost

• Tác giả: Farrukh Iqbal
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 297.7 Protection and propagation of Islam
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank Group, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 328378
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO FOOD; 2. ACHIEVEMENT; 3. ADULTS; 4. AID; 5. AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Tóm tắt

 This paper reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region in education attainment over the past four decades (1970-2010). It documents the following main findings: (a) all countries in the region experienced significant improvements in educational attainment over this period
  (b) most countries in the region did better in this regard than comparators that had roughly the same education stocks in 1970
  (c) collectively, the region achieved a greater percentage increase in education than other regions
  (d) the region's better performance was in part because of higher rates of public spending on education, better food sufficiency status, and a lower initial stock of education in 1970 in comparison with most other developing country regions
  and (e) the region had among the lowest payoffs to public spending in terms of increments in education stock
  the impressive advance in education was achieved at high cost.