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Education in Sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative analysis /
As in most countries worldwide, Sub-Saharan African countries are striving to build their human capital so they can compete for jobs and investments in an increasingly globalized world. In this region, which includes the largest number of countries that have not yet attained universal primary school...
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
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- Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Is Everyone Getting a Chance at Education?; Figures; Figure O.1: Sub-Saharan Africa's Educational Pyramid, ca. 2009; Figure O.2: Projected Primary Completion Rates by 2015 in Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries; Are Those Given a Chance Actually Learning?; Figure O.3: Correlation of Reading Ability and Length of Schooling, Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries; Is What They Are Learning Relevant for Work and Life?; Tables; Table O.1: Social Outcomes by Average Education Level in Sub-Saharan African Countries, ca. 2003.
- Are Countries Investing Enough in Education and Achieving a Sound Balance across Levels of Education?Figure O.4: Public Spending on Education in Sub-Saharan African Countries (Capital and Recurrent), ca. 2005; Figure O.5: Tradeoff between Teacher Salary and Pupil-Teacher Ratio at Primary Level in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, ca. 2003; Are the Resources Well Deployed and Managed to Ensure Efficient Functioning of Education Systems?; How Is Cross-Country Diversity in Policies and Educational Outcomes Useful for Country-Specific Policy Development?
- Figure O.6: Number of Schools by Per-Student Spending, Burundi and Malawi, ca. 2004Notes; Table O.2: Randomness in Teacher Allocation to Primary Schools, Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2000-08; References; Country Status Reports; Chapter 1 Coverage of Education and Prospects for Expansion; Overview of the Pattern of Coverage; Figure 1.1: Sub-Saharan Africa's Educational Pyramid, ca. 2009; Table 1.1: Education Coverage in Low-Income Countries, by World Region, ca. 2009; Maps; Map 1.1: Primary School Completion Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2009.
- Figure 1.2: Primary School Entry and Retention Rates in Sub-Saharan African Countries, ca. 2009Table 1.2: Secondary Education Coverage in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, ca. 2009; Relationship between Education Coverage and Per Capita GDP; Figure 1.3: Relationship between Per Capita GDP and School-Life Expectancy in Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990-2009; Boxes; Box 1.1: Benin School Construction through Community-Driven Development: A Decade of Lessons Learned; Prospects for the Expansion of Education Coverage.
- Table 1.3: Absolute Gains in Coverage, by Education Level, in 33 Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990-2009Figure 1.4: Growth in Primary Education Coverage in 33 Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990-2009; Box 1.2: Mauritania: Community Management of Primary School Construction; Figure 1.5: Relative Gains in Education Coverage, by Education Level, in 33 Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990-2009; Figure 1.6: Average Annual PCR Growth in 33 Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1999-2009.