• Education financing
• Aid and education
  • Aid and education
  • Aid effectiveness and education
• Education financing and PEM
• Resource allocation
• Who pays

Education financing

This paper reviews investment in education in Bangladesh since 2000. It analyses trends from both government and private spending whilst also looking at their impact, outcomes and ways forward.

Key findings include:

• understanding how these investments impact on basic education outcomes will clearly be important to direct additional investment in basic education
• while government spending on education as a proportion of national income has stagnated, it has increased in real terms
• real increases in education spending have resulted in substantial increases in per student spending in basic education. At primary, enrolment declines have reinforced these trends and in 2005 per student spending in government primary schools was 30% higher, in real terms than in 2001
• despite these increases, per student spending on education in Bangladesh remains low compared to other countries in the region and countries at similar levels of development
• levels of government funding vary enormously across different providers of basic education although these differences do not appear to have a significant impact on education outcomes at the primary level.

The paper concludes that to achieve equitable access to basic education, it is important to narrow public funding differences. However, given the comparatively low levels of funding across the basic education system it is perhaps more important to increase overall levels of funding if the quality and overall efficiency of the system is to be improved.

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