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Titre : Decentralizing Education Expenditures : Primary School Community Grants in Niger

Région /Pays : Niger

Date : 2007-2008

Présentation
In recent years school enrollment has risen dramatically in developing countries, prompting a renewed interest among policymakers in education management. Provision of educational services is centrally administered in much of the developing world, but evidence suggests that decentralized, locally administered services may be better suited to address low education quality. Local administration and oversight puts power into the hands of those with the most interest in seeing improvements in service delivery, and the best information about current education quality. By empowering local communities, decentralized management has the potential to combat systemic teacher absenteeism and reduce misallocation and corruption.

Taille de l’échantillon  : 140,000 pupils in 1,000 primary schoo

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