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Education investment and commitment: Education investment and commitment: reassessing the international benchmarksreassessing the international benchmarks
UNESCO Institute for StatisticsIWGE 2010, Stockholm
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UIS and global education finance dataUIS and global education finance data
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics:
Collects national domestic finance data annuallyDisseminates data three times a year on the UIS Data Centre
Uses and interprets data• Impact of financial crisis on education budgets (2009)• Financing education in Africa (with Pole de Dakar and IIEP in 2010)
Provides technical assistance/data quality diagnoses • Sustainable reporting of financing data in sub ‐Saharan Africa
(sector review follow ‐up)• Data quality assessment framework (DQAF)
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The global distribution of The global distribution of
education s endin 2007education s endin 2007Public education expenditure (billion PPP$)
.
Arab States (15/20) 88.1
Central/Eastern Europe 219.7(18/21)
Central Asia (7/9) 8.7
(35/41)
.
South/West Asia (7/9) 153.7
Sub‐Saharan Africa (38/45) 53.8
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Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2010
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The investment to educate a childThe investment to educate a child
One year of primary school, PPP$
. ,Kuwait 2,618
eyc e es ,
Estonia 2,896Poland 3,041
Hungary 3,978
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Risks in benchmarking public Risks in benchmarking public
education spendingeducation spending
Crude measures of macro ‐level inputsMissing a big part of the picture where household contributions are not counted
regional governmentsRel in onl on relative measures one can lose si ht of absolute needsMissing the underlying story of the conditions that influence spending/costs
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Accounting for national contextsAccounting for national contexts
Overall proportion of and growth rates of the school age populationCoverage o t e e ucat on system
• even by single grades!
The roles of government and societies• Redistributive or direct channel for families
Volume of
education
provision
• ,
Quality of education provision• teaching standards, teaching/learning environment
Efficiency of education provision• repetition, retention and completion
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Different levels of capacity and demand Different levels of capacity and demand
im l different resource needsim l different resource needsSierra Leone
160
Group AGroup AGrou BGrou B
Madagascar
MalawiRwanda
GabonNepalBelize
Sao Tome
Cambodia
LesothoGuyana
120 5
Russian Fed.
Equat. Guinea
100 r y
G E R 2 0 Zambia
YemenGambia Afghanistan
UAEChadSenegal
PNGCote d'Ivoire
Guinea
Congo
80 P r i m
EritreaSudanBurkina FasoCAR
Djibouti
60
Group CGroup C
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40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Primary school age population (1995=100)declining population increasing population
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The traditional benchmarksThe traditional benchmarks
Investment/cost• • Per pupil public expenditure as a share of GDP per capita
Effort/commitment• Public education expenditure as a share of national
ncome or per cap ta• Public education expenditure as a share of government
budget (TGE)• Share of education expenditure by source of funds
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Investment/costInvestment/cost
Per pupil expenditure is calculated as the annual expenditure recurrent or total divided b the number of u ils
Countries range from 2% to 25% and less than PPP$100 to more than PPP$15,000
Often presented as ‘unit costs’ but only represents part of total
costs; better described as public investment per pupil
Two complementary measures• Relative (as a % of GDP per capita) allows cross ‐national comparisons
• so u e measures
n
a ow
assessmen
o
s su c ency
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Relative and absolute measures of per primary Relative and absolute measures of per primary
pupil public
expenditure
in
SS
Africa,
2008pupil
public
expenditure
in
SS
Africa,
2008
1,386
1,600
30
35
p i t a
PPP $% GDP per Capita
1,021
806
1,200
i n P P P $
20
25
f G D P p e r c a
461346400
800
E x p e n
d i t u r
10
15
d i t u r e a s a
%
263162 156 132 110 94 83 81 77 76 75 72 61 51 39
0 0
5 E x p e n
S o u t h A
f r i c a
N a m i b i a
B o t s w
a n a - 1
C a p e
V e r d e
L e s o t h o
B u r k i n a
F a s o -
K e n y a - 2 N i g e
r
B e n i n - 2
C o m o r o s
C a m e
r o o n M a l i
R w a n d a - 1 U g a n d a
M o z a
m b i q u e -
T o g o - 1 E t h i o p i a - 1
M a d a
g a s c a r
B u r u n d
i
E r i t r e a - 2
l A f r i c a
n R e p
u b l i c -
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C e n t r
Note: -1 data refer to 2007; -2 data refer to 2006
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Effort/commitment, IEffort/commitment, I
The share of national income (GDP) invested in education –often inter reted as a measure of commitment to education
Countries range from less than 1% to 15%
Often misapplied, e.g., ‘5‐6% of GDP should be spent on education’ cited (based on OECD)
Not always a good measure of government ‘effort’ because of differences in duration of schooling, coverage of education
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Effort/commitment, IIEffort/commitment, II
• The share of public expenditure invested in education –
education• Countries ran e from less than 10% to 30%
• Closer to commitment in that it represents the actual government budget constraints
• Level highly dependent upon the role of governments and societies; whether governments play a redistributive
role or families and communities are more directly responsible for the education of their children
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Comparing national ‘effort’ fromComparing national ‘effort’ from
the perspective
of
fiscal
spacethe
perspective
of
fiscal
space
Timor-Leste
90
100
> 7.0
CubaCyprus-1
70
80
g e o
f G D P
. - .
5.0-6.0
2.5-5.0
<2.5 i n g
LesothoSweden-1
Belgium-1Guyana-1
Austria-1
Belarus-1
Ital -150
60
r e a s a p e r c e n
t a
b l i c s p e n
Djibouti-1Moldova
Botswana-1Swaziland
Iceland-1
BurundiTunisia-1
BarbadosNorway-1
Kyrgyzstan-1Namibia
-
Saudi Arabia
Cape Verde
USA-1Samoa
Viet Nam
YemenSouth Africa
Senegal**
Belize-1
Latvia-1
Poland-1Dominica
Romania-1Spain-1
Bulgaria-1
Paraguay-1Egypt
El Salvador
Slovakia-1Anguilla
Georgia
Pakistan30
40
l p u
b l i c e x p e n
d i t
a r e o
f p u
Vanuatu
anzana
MoroccoEthiopia-1
ra ne-
Costa RicaThailandCôte d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso-1
Malaysia-1
AlgeriaRwandaMaliNepalTogo-1
TajikistanHong Kong SAR
Bahrain
CameroonMadagascar
SingaporeLiberia
Peru
Philippines-1BangladeshLao PDR
Macao, China
Lebanon
Azerbaijan
Guinea
Cambodia-1
CAR-110
20 T o t a
H i g h e r s
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UAE
00 5 10 15 20 25 30
Expenditure on education as percentage of total public expenditure
Note: -1 data refer to 2007
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statis tics .
g er s are o e ucat on spen ng
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Developing the measurement agendaDeveloping the measurement agenda
Improve relevance of benchmark measures• ‐
investments/costs• Capture the full picture of investments/costs
Improve comparative frameworks for measuring
household contributions
to
education
• eac consensus on w a represen s an e uca on cos in different societies/economies
Data indicators that are needed to address emerging issues... open for discussion
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