Publication: India - Karnataka : Financing Education in the Context of Economic Restructuring
Date
2002-06-13
ISSN
Published
2002-06-13
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The study addresses four major concerns
within the Bank's Economic Restructuring Program in
Karnataka: 1) identifying the priority issues facing the
education sector; 2) indicating possible areas for
expenditure reform, to improve the efficiency, and equity of
public spending in education; 3) identifying measures to
strengthen the effectiveness of public expenditure; and, 4)
assessing the resource requirements for school education.
The report reviews achievements, and educational trends in
the nineties, looking at the factors shaping
Karnataka's education development, to then examine
public expenditures on education, and the efficiency of
public spending. Improvements in the effectiveness of public
expenditures in education are proposed, namely in the input
utilization of teachers, and non-teachers; in management
strengthening of the private sector; and, decentralization
in the education system. To attain the elementary, and
secondary education goals, considerable financial
allocations will be required, where the volume of additional
requirements depends critically on the strategies adopted by
the Government of Karnataka (GOK), particularly as these
affect the expenditures on teachers. The analyses show that
if the GOK adopts fiscally sustainable strategies in school
education, provided fiscal reforms are successful, financing
requirements for the educational system expansion of higher
quality, could be met, mainly from its own resources, and
private sector mobilization, as well as from the adoption of
cost-reducing strategies to narrow the financing gap.
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“World Bank. 2002. India - Karnataka : Financing Education in the Context of Economic Restructuring. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15406 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”