Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
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 improveme...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/12/20454306/education-attainment-middle-east-north-africa-success-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20609 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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