Education and Training in Madagascar : Toward a Policy Agenda for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
The prospects for educational development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding...
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1808691/education-training-madagascar-toward-policy-agenda-economic-growth-poverty-reduction-education-training-madagascar-toward-policy-agenda-economic-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14088 |
| Summary: | The prospects for educational
development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the
increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector.
Public spending for education, relative to the gross
domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with a
five-fold rise in the country's interest payment for
external debt. As the debt service burden began to ease in
the late 90s, public spending on education began to recover,
and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to
transform the sector's public spending into educational
outcomes that would make significant contributions to
poverty reduction. The report identifies challenges at all
levels of formal education, where a medium term goal is to
achieve universal access to basic education, and of
reasonable quality, while closely linking expansion of other
levels, and types of education and training, to labor market
demand. In primary education, challenges remain to raise
educational enrollment rates and reduce grade repetition;
including the rationalization of teacher allocation, and
provision of learning materials. At the secondary level,
policy issues should expand enrollment at a moderate pace,
focusing on quality improvements. As for vocational and
technical education, the provision of training should be
rationalized, to reduce costs, aligning training to labor
demand; similarly, for higher education. |
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