India - Karnataka : Financing Education in the Context of Economic Restructuring

The study addresses four major concerns within the Bank's Economic Restructuring Program in Karnataka: 1) identifying the priority issues facing the education sector; 2) indicating possible areas for expenditure reform, to improve the efficiency, and equity of public spending in education; 3) identifying measures to strengthen the effectiveness of public expenditure; and, 4) assessing the resource requirements for school education. The report reviews achievements, and educational trends in the nineties, looking at the factors shaping Karnataka's education development, to then examine public expenditures on education, and the efficiency of public spending. Improvements in the effectiveness of public expenditures in education are proposed, namely in the input utilization of teachers, and non-teachers; in management strengthening of the private sector; and, decentralization in the education system. To attain the elementary, and secondary education goals, considerable financial allocations will be required, where the volume of additional requirements depends critically on the strategies adopted by the Government of Karnataka (GOK), particularly as these affect the expenditures on teachers. The analyses show that if the GOK adopts fiscally sustainable strategies in school education, provided fiscal reforms are successful, financing requirements for the educational system expansion of higher quality, could be met, mainly from its own resources, and private sector mobilization, as well as from the adoption of cost-reducing strategies to narrow the financing gap.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2002-06-13
Subjects:	ABSENTEEISM, ACADEMIC YEAR, ACHIEVEMENTS, ADDITION, AGE GROUP, AGE GROUPS, ATTENDING SCHOOL, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CLASSROOMS, COMPOSITION, COMPUTER EDUCATION, CURRICULUM, DECENTRALIZATION, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, DROP OUT RATES, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EDUCATION, EDUCATION BUDGET, EDUCATION EXPENDITURES, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, EDUCATION LEVELS, EDUCATION POLICY, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT GROWTH, ENROLLMENT RATE, EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION, EXPENDITURES, FEMALE LITERACY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, ILLITERACY, INDUSTRIAL TRAINING, INSTRUCTION, LABOR MARKET, LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, LANGUAGE SKILLS, LANGUAGE TEACHING, LEARNING, LEARNING MATERIALS, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LEARNING PROCESSES, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, LIBRARIES, LIBRARY BOOKS, LITERACY RATE, OUT- OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN, OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN, PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, POPULATION GROWTH, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOLING, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE EDUCATION, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC FUNDS, PUPIL TEACHER RATIO, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, REGIONAL INEQUALITIES, REPETITION, REPETITION RATES, RURAL AREAS, SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY LEVEL, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SMALL SCHOOLS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER, TEACHER DEPLOYMENT, TEACHER EDUCATION, TEACHER SALARIES, TEACHER TRAINING, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TEXTBOOKS, UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, UPPER PRIMARY, VILLAGE EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL FINANCING, PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, REFORM POLICY, PUBLIC SPENDING, RESOURCES UTILIZATION, PRIVATE SECTOR MANAGEMENT, BASIC EDUCATION, ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS, FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY, FISCAL REFORMS, FINANCING PLANS, RESOURCES MOBILIZATION, COST-EFFECTIVENESS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/06/1932128/india-karnataka-financing-education-context-economic-restructuring https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15406
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