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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Main Authors:	Iqbal, Farrukh, Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO FOOD ACHIEVEMENT ADULTS AID AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION CHILDREN OF SCHOOL-GOING AGE COSTS OF EDUCATION DEMAND FOR EDUCATION ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION ATTAINMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES FORMAL SCHOOLING GROSS ENROLLMENT GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES HEALTH CARE HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION JOBS LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS PAPERS PROVISION OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPANSION SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TEACHERS TRANSPORTATION UNDERACHIEVERS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-206092021-04-23T14:03:59Z Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf ACCESS TO FOOD ACHIEVEMENT ADULTS AID AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION CHILDREN OF SCHOOL-GOING AGE COSTS OF EDUCATION DEMAND FOR EDUCATION ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION ATTAINMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES FORMAL SCHOOLING GROSS ENROLLMENT GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES HEALTH CARE HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION JOBS LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS PAPERS PROVISION OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPANSION SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TEACHERS TRANSPORTATION UNDERACHIEVERS 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. 2014-12-03T15:34:59Z 2014-12-03T15:34:59Z 2014-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/12/20454306/education-attainment-middle-east-north-africa-success-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20609 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7127 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa
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topic	ACCESS TO FOOD ACHIEVEMENT ADULTS AID AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION CHILDREN OF SCHOOL-GOING AGE COSTS OF EDUCATION DEMAND FOR EDUCATION ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION ATTAINMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES FORMAL SCHOOLING GROSS ENROLLMENT GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES HEALTH CARE HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION JOBS LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS PAPERS PROVISION OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPANSION SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TEACHERS TRANSPORTATION UNDERACHIEVERS
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO FOOD ACHIEVEMENT ADULTS AID AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION CHILDREN OF SCHOOL-GOING AGE COSTS OF EDUCATION DEMAND FOR EDUCATION ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION ATTAINMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION SPENDING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES FORMAL SCHOOLING GROSS ENROLLMENT GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES HEALTH CARE HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION JOBS LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS PAPERS PROVISION OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL EXPANSION SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TEACHERS TRANSPORTATION UNDERACHIEVERS Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
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description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
author_facet	Iqbal, Farrukh Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
author_sort	Iqbal, Farrukh
title	Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
title_short	Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
title_full	Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
title_fullStr	Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
title_full_unstemmed	Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost
title_sort	education attainment in the middle east and north africa : success at a cost
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/12/20454306/education-attainment-middle-east-north-africa-success-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20609
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Education Attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : Success at a Cost

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