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 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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Main Authors:	Iqbal, Farrukh, Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014-12
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20609
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