The Costs and Financing of Education: Trends and Policy Implications

The Costs and Financing of Education: Trends and Policy Implications
Written by Mark Bray

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ISBN: 971-561-531-7
Pub. Date: 2004
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List of Tables, List of Figures, List of Boxes, List of Abbreviations, and Foreword [ PDF: 33kb | 11 pages ]

Introduction [ PDF: 14kb | 2 pages ]

Contextual Features [ PDF: 22kb | 3 pages ]

Scale and Nature of Existing Education Provision [ PDF: 20kb | 3 pages ]

Volume of Expenditures on Education [ PDF: 30kb | 5 pages ]

Public Expenditures

Private Expenditures

Economic Justification for Investment in Education [ PDF: 34kb | 7 pages ]

Unit Costs and their Determinants [ PDF: 63kb | 15 pages ]

Meanings and Examples

Goals, Determinants, and Manipulable Variables

Dropout and Repetition Rates

Technologies - New and Old

Cost Sharing in Education [ PDF: 34kb | 8 pages ]

Changing Frameworks for Policy

Political Forces and Budget Constraints

Forms of Cost Sharing

Alternatives to Cost Sharing

Cost Recovery and Student Support in Tertiary Education [ PDF: 23kb | 4 pages ]

Fees

Grants and Loans

Institutional Revenue-Earning Schemes [ PDF: 12kb | 2 pages ]

Privatization of Education [ PDF: 33kb | 7 pages ]

Models for Privatization

Effects of Privatization

Private Tutoring - A Sector Deserving Particular Scrutiny

International Aid for Education [ PDF: 32kb | 5 pages ]

Particular Strategies for Particular Groups of Countries [ PDF: 24kb | 5 pages ]

Poor, Middle-Income, and Rich Economies

Transitional and Long-Standing Capitalist Economies

Countries of Different Sizes

Conclusion [ PDF: 16kb | 3 pages ]

Note on the Author, References, Appendix, and Index [ PDF: 64kb | 19 pages ]

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Series: Education in Developing Asia
Series editor: Mark Bray

Layout and index by Sara Wong.

The findings, interpretation, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the Asian Development Bank or the University of Hong Kong.

A summary of an earlier version of this booklet was presented as an article in Vol.29, No.7 (1998) of the International Journal of Educational Research, published by Pergamon Press. The publishers of this booklet thank Pergamon Press for permission to reproduce some of the materials from the journal article.

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