Internationalizing Sub-Saharan Africa’s Education and Health Services
This paper summarizes the nature and determinants of trade in education and health services in a selected group of countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The paper presents results fro...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25082536/internationalizing-sub-saharan-africa’s-education-health-services http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22794 |
| Summary: | This paper summarizes the nature and
determinants of trade in education and health services in a
selected group of countries in Eastern and Southern Africa,
using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.
The paper presents results from new, innovative data
collection methods, such as crowdsourcing, to shed some
light on the magnitude, determinants, and restrictions on
intra-African trade in education and health services.
Assessments of trade and regulatory barriers, based on
results from regulatory surveys conducted in selected East
African countries, and case studies of success stories and
less favorable experiences are then used to develop policy
recommendations for using trade and regional integration
more strategically to improve outcomes in education and
health. The analysis shows that to turn these sectors
around, policy action is required in the areas of education,
domestic regulation, trade policy, labor mobility, and
information and communications technologies at the national
and international levels. To retain some of the scarce
health workers in the region and enhance the region’s
competitiveness in providing education and health services,
African countries should allow for freer mobility of
teachers and health care professionals. |
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