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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783344903321

Titolo

Education in Ethiopia : : strengthening the foundation for sustainable progress

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., U.S.A. : , : World Bank, , [2005]

copyright 2005

ISBN

1-280-17718-7

9786610177189

0-8213-6227-5

Descrizione fisica

xlix, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; ; 26 cm

Collana

A World Bank country study

Disciplina

370/.963

Soggetti

Education - Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Executive Summary; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; 1. Demography, Economy, and Government Finance; BOX; 2. Enrollments and Patterns of Student Flow; 3. Education Expenditures; 4. Disparities in Enrollments, Student Flow, and Benefit Incidence; 5. Service Delivery in Primary and Secondary Education; 6. Aspects of the Market and Nonmarket Benefits of Schooling; APPENDIXES; Technical Note 1: Preparation of the Data on Current Public Expenditure on Education in Ethiopia; Technical Note 2: Estimating Student Flow Profiles

Technical Note 3: Selected Studies on Rates of Return to Education in Ethiopia Appendix Tables; References

Sommario/riassunto

With the end of civil war in 1991, Ethiopia's government launched a New Education and Training Policy in 1994 which, by the early 2000's, had already produced remarkable results. The gross enrollment ratio rose from 20 to 62 percent in primary education between 1993-94 and 2001-02; and in secondary and higher education it climbed, respectively, from 8 to 12 percent and from 0.5 to 1.7 percent. Yet the government can hardly afford to rest on its laurels. Primary education is still not universal, and already there are concerns about plummeting



educational quality and the growing pressures to...