| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 170 pages) : charts |
| Series |
World Bank working paper ; no. 136 |
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Africa human development series |
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World Bank working paper ; no. 136.
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Africa Region human development series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 secondary school in the region-and fewer complete successfully, having consequences for gender equity, poverty reduction, and economic growth. As universal primary schooling becomes a reality, demand for secondary schools is increasing rapidly. Gaps between the educational levels of the labor force |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English, with a French translation of the Executive Summary |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Secondary -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Education, Secondary -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Finance
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Sustainable development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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EDUCATION -- Finance.
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Education, Secondary -- Economic aspects
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Education, Secondary -- Finance
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Sustainable development
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Utbildning -- finansiering -- Afrika söder om Sahara.
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Utbildning -- ekonomiska aspekter -- Afrika söder om Sahara.
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Hållbar utveckling -- Afrika söder om Sahara.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007047632 |
| ISBN |
9780821371169 |
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0821371169 |
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0821371150 |
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9780821371152 |
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1281239364 |
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9781281239365 |
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9786611239367 |
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6611239367 |
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