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Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa.

By OECD

Book information

Publisher
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Year
2002
ISBN
9789264177499, 9264177493
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5035440 bytes)
Series
Development Centre studies.
Pages
196\196
Time added
2017-11-06 06:49:56
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Description

In the context of four of the OECD Development Assistance Committee's (DAC) development objectives -- reducing extreme poverty; providing universal primary education; lowering infant and maternal mortality; and transmitting health -- this book is particularly timely. The authors demonstrate that in the case of very poor countries, policies aimed at universal provision of education and health services benefit the poor significantly more than more expensive targeted schemes. The book draws attention to the absolute need for coherence and co-ordination so that schools are not built without teache.  Read more...

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