It presents figures for 19 countries gathered over the 1998 (or 1998 - 1999) school year from national and other sources including the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and covers access and participation of pupils and students from early childhood to tertiary level in both public and private education, teaching staff and education expenditure.
The main share of public expenditure on education in most countries goes to primary education.
U.S. expenditure on education doubled between 1992 and 2006 without doing much for the middle class financially.
One of the reasons for the underfunding is the relative weakness of India's central government, which accounts for only 15% of total expenditure on education.
Participants at the High Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA), organized by UNESCO and the Government of Norway, today urgently called on national governments to allocate at least four to six per cent of GNP and 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure to education.
If this trend continues, this could lead to higher public expenditure, for example on education.
He is also committed to reducing the number of ministries from 21 to 12, slashing wasteful public works expenditure and improving social welfare and education.
Instead of military expenditure, they are pouring their resources into education, innovation and embracing their bio-diversity.
The country has a bloated expenditure on the military and small spending on education so that it lags even behind impoverished neighbours like Bangladesh in many spheres.
In the case of education, for example, a teachers' wages would come under current expenditure, while building a new school - a physical asset which will last a long time - would be classed as capital.
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Of the total rise in expenditure on public services in the three years ahead, a fifth goes to education and a third to health.
As far as public expenditure is concerned, we have said that we are able to finance the frontline services in education and health and policing, and what we've said is for other areas there is so much uncertainty about what's likely to happen to the economy at the moment that we will make these decisions in a spending review at the appropriate time.
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