Strategies for sustainable financing of secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Strategies for sustainable financing of secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa / Keith M. Lewin.

Investment in secondary schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa has been neglected since the World Conference on Education for All at Jomtien. The World Education Forum in Dakar began to recognize the growing importance of post-primary schooling for development. Only 25 percent of school-age children attend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewin, Keith
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2008.
Series:World Bank working paper ; no. 136.
Africa Region human development series.
Subjects:
Education, Secondary > Economic aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Education, Secondary > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Finance.
Sustainable development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
EDUCATION > Finance.
Education, Secondary > Economic aspects
Education, Secondary > Finance
Sustainable development
Utbildning > finansiering > Afrika söder om Sahara.
Utbildning > ekonomiska aspekter > Afrika söder om Sahara.
Hållbar utveckling > Afrika söder om Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Executive Summary
  • Résumé analytique
  • Introduction
  • Why secondary education?
  • The status of secondary schooling
  • The challenge of expanding secondary enrollment
  • How much secondary expansion is affordable with and without reform?
  • Options for affordable expansion of secondary schooling
  • Ways forward
  • Appendix 1. Projections of recurrent and development costs
  • Appendix 2. Projecting the future in Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda / [by Keith M. Lewin]
  • Appendix 3. Costs and financing of secondary education in Benin : a situational analysis / [by] Djibril Debourou, Aimé Gnimadi, Françoise Caillods, and K. Abraham
  • Appendix 4. Costs and financing of secondary education in Ghana : a situational analysis / [by] K. Akyeampong.

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