Kingdom of Lesotho Education Public Expenditure Review
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is the result of a collaboration among the World Bank Group, and Lesotho’s Ministries of Education and Finance, and is designed to inform Lesotho’s effort in expanding access to quality education services, while...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/419381558335864401/Lesotho-Education-Public-Expenditure-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31819 |
| Summary: | This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is
the result of a collaboration among the World Bank Group,
and Lesotho’s Ministries of Education and Finance, and is
designed to inform Lesotho’s effort in expanding access to
quality education services, while operating in a highly
fiscally constraint environment. Although education spending
is one of the highest in the world as a percentage of GDP
(13.5 percent of GDP) and universal access to primary
education enshrined in law, poor educational outcomes
persist across the country. Lesotho is also not on track to
achieve the two education-related MDGs, with both primary
enrollment (82 percent) and primary completion (65 percent)
rates lagging far behind the goal of 100 percent by the end
2015. The report is organized as follows. The first chapter
offers a detailed assessment of the overall sectoral
budgeting and expenditure patterns in the education sector
over a five-year period, from fiscal years (FY) 2011-12 to
2015-16, using multiple data sources. The second chapter
estimates the cost of expanding secondary education to
achieve the government’s goal of universal compulsory lower
basic education by 2020 and makes recommendations on how to
better utilize the funding for the sector taking into
account the fiscal constraints at macro level. |
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