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Making Higher Education Finance Work for Africa -super-†

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  • Shantayanan Devarajan
  • Célestin Monga
  • Tertius Zongo

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This paper identifies the twin problems of higher education financing in Africa—inadequate resources and poor use of existing resources—and traces them to the preponderance of free, public tertiary education in most countries, despite a weak economic rationale for such an approach and unintended consequences of inequitable access and politicization of higher education. It proposes a reform of higher education finance based on principles of rationalizing government's role, taking into account the politics of such reforms and the institutional changes needed for a well-functioning system of tertiary education in Africa. Copyright 2011 , Oxford University Press.

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  • Shantayanan Devarajan & Célestin Monga & Tertius Zongo, 2011. "Making Higher Education Finance Work for Africa -super-†," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 20(suppl_3), pages -154, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:20:y:2011:i:suppl_3:p:-iii154
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    1. Hanan Morsy & Adamon N. Mukasa, 2019. "Working Paper 326 - Youth Jobs, Skill and Educational Mismatches in Africa," Working Paper Series 2452, African Development Bank.
    2. Morsy, Hanan & Mukasa, Adamon, 2019. "Youth Jobs, Skill and Educational Mismatches in Africa," MPRA Paper 100394, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Adesoji Oladapo Farayibi & Oludele Folarin, 2021. "Does government education expenditure affect educational outcomes? New evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 33(3), pages 546-559, September.
    4. Francesca Marchetta & Tom Dilly, 2019. "Supporting Education in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for an Impact Investor," Working Papers hal-02288103, HAL.

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