Public Expenditure Review of the Education Sector in Jamaica
The objective of this public expenditure review (PER) is to analyze the adequacy, efficiency, and equity of public spending on education in Jamaica. These three aspects will be compared to national and international standards, in line with Jamaica’...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099925003242215282/P17348204b87d40e0b6d60ef968189869b http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37524 |
| Summary: | The objective of this public
expenditure review (PER) is to analyze the adequacy,
efficiency, and equity of public spending on education in
Jamaica. These three aspects will be compared to national
and international standards, in line with Jamaica’s
educational challenges and goals. To this end, Caribbean
countries will serve as regional peers; select top
performing education systems (Finland and Estonia) will
serve as aspirational comparators; and the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member
countries, which represents a composite of high-income
country systems, will serve as an international comparator.
This report uses data from the Ministry of Finance and the
Public Service (MOFPS), the Ministry of Education, Youth,
and Information (MOEYI), the Statistical Institute of
Jamaica, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The
analysis focuses on the last two years (2018 - 2019), for
which spending data was provided. Longer trend analysis was
impeded due to lack of additional years of data, although
analysis was corroborated by other sources where possible.
The PER incorporates results from national and regional
assessments to provide information on education system
performance. However, as Jamaica has not recently
participated in any internationally benchmarked learning
assessments, the PER can not include a deeper evaluation of
the quality of education from an international perspective. |
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