Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?

Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen and Mark Misselhorn
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Mark Misselhorn: University of Göttingen

Review of Economics and Institutions, 2010, vol. 1, issue 1

Abstract: Attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in educational access and achievements? This paper analyzes differences in improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender and regions for a sample of 37 developing countries using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). For the analysis, the toolbox of pro-poor growth analysis is applied to several educational indicators. We find drastic inequalities in educational attendance across the income distribution. Interestingly, inequalities in attendance declines with rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or schooling years.

Keywords: education; human capital; inequality; pro-poor growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I29 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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