Education and Training in Madagascar : Toward a Policy Agenda for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACHIEVEMENTS;    ADDITION;    BASIC EDUCATION;    BASIC SKILLS;    COMPLEXITY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/0-8213-5164-8
RP-ID  :  24328

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The prospects for educationaldevelopment are excellent in Madagascar, in light of theincreasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector.Public spending for education, relative to the grossdomestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with afive-fold rise in the country's interest payment forexternal debt. As the debt service burden began to ease inthe late 90s, public spending on education began to recover,and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is totransform the sector's public spending into educationaloutcomes that would make significant contributions topoverty reduction. The report identifies challenges at alllevels of formal education, where a medium term goal is toachieve universal access to basic education, and ofreasonable quality, while closely linking expansion of otherlevels, and types of education and training, to labor marketdemand. In primary education, challenges remain to raiseeducational enrollment rates and reduce grade repetition;including the rationalization of teacher allocation, andprovision of learning materials. At the secondary level,policy issues should expand enrollment at a moderate pace,focusing on quality improvements. As for vocational andtechnical education, the provision of training should berationalized, to reduce costs, aligning training to labordemand; similarly, for higher education.