Why is so Little Spent on Educating the Poor?

Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman

No DP2001-29, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary education—the category of education of most direct benefit to the poor—while on average public subsidies to secondary education are roughly three times as high as subsidies to primary education, and subsidies to tertiary education are thirty times as high.

Keywords: Economic development; Education; Public expenditures; Income distribution; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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