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The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

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The document examines first the relationship between a number of indicators concerning a country system of education (global and per-pupil public resources by level of schooling, education coverage, quality of educational outcomes, efficiency in student flow, external efficiency, equity by gender and in resource allocation, ..) and and its environment (overall sector context, demographic pressure fiscal, capacity, structure of employment, ..) on the one hand, its level of economic development on the other. The paper analyzes how the economic development affects the amount of resources mobilized for the sector with the finding that the main source of resources lies in the decrease of the teacher salaries (in relative terms) as the countries get richer. Finally the paper examines the changes in educational policies along with the economic development and concludes that the main policy consists in i) expanding coverage and ii) reducing the pupil-teacher ratio, a strategy that may not be very cost-efficient.