Achieving education for all: how much does money matter?

✍ Scribed by Samer Al-Samarrai

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.1190

✦ Synopsis

This paper explores the extent to which differences in the resources allocated to education explain differences in educational access and performance across countries. Crosscountry regression analysis shows that the link between educational access and performance and public education expenditure is weak. The paper suggests that levels of household spending, the effectiveness of the public expenditure management system and the composition of public education spending are important factors explaining this weak link. The results imply that the achievement of the education millennium development goals will require more than just increases in expenditure on primary education.