Pobreza y accesibilidad a la educación en un marco de privatización de los servicios en África Subsahariana. Los casos de Conakry y Duala

Lourdes Diaz Olvera (), Didier Plat () and Pascal Pochet ()
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Lourdes Diaz Olvera: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Didier Plat: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pascal Pochet: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Poverty and accessibility to education in the context of privatisation of services in Sub-Saharan Africa . The cases of Conakry and Douala. - Sub-Saharan African countries have been experiencing since the end of the last century a privatisation process in a number of areas. What could the impact of the quantitative and qualitative evolutions of the offer of schools on schooling rates be particularly for children from poor households? We have carried out secondary analyses of empirical data collected in 2003 for a study on mobility and accessibility to urban services of the poor populations from Conakry and Douala . If schooling problems seem even more significant in Conakry than in Douala, two converging results can be pointed out: 1) the density of schools and distance to the school have a real but limited impact on schooling rates; 2) because of high schooling costs and unaffordability for a number of households, private and public are not substitutable. From the point of view of equity in access to education, these results renew the need for public intervention as regards education.

Keywords: education; transport; primary education; city; Sub-Saharan Africa; educación; transporte; enseñanza primaria; ciudad; África Subsahariana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Scripta Nova. Revista Electronica de Geographia y Ciencias Sociales, 2008, XII (270), pp.1-16

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