Reforming Education Finance in Transition Countries : Six Case Studies in Per Capita Financing Systems
This book reviews the experience with one specific though widely introduced approach to funding general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in an effort to learn which outcomes...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This book reviews the experience with
one specific though widely introduced approach to funding
general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six
countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in an
effort to learn which outcomes were achieved and how. Per
capita financing is a type of formula funding of
schools-funding characterized by a set of agreed objective
criteria for allocating resources to schools, that provides
schools fixed amounts of financing based on the numbers of
students enrolled. Five of the six case study countries,
Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Russian
Federation, were chosen primarily since they represent ECA
countries with relatively long experience in implementing
PCF schemes. The hope is that, as a result, the likelihood
of observing the outcomes of per capita financing is higher.
Since per capita financing replaced a school budget
allocation process (input-based or normative budgeting) that
was non-transparent and conducive to inefficient use and
inequitable allocation of resources, the main expected
outcomes of the per student finance reform were improved
efficiency, equity, and transparency and accountability of
public education expenditures. |
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