Can Ghana Afford the Sustainable Development Goal on Education?

Autor/inn/en	Osei Kwadwo, Victor; Konadu, Obaa Akua
Titel	Can Ghana Afford the Sustainable Development Goal on Education?
Quelle	In: Africa Education Review, 17 (2020) 2, S.177-197 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Osei Kwadwo, Victor) ORCID (Konadu, Obaa Akua)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1814-6627
DOI	10.1080/18146627.2018.1557532
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Educational Finance; Fiscal Capacity; Educational Quality; Global Approach; Access to Education; At Risk Persons; Equal Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Lifelong Learning; Low Income Groups; Gender Bias; Diversity; Program Evaluation; Outcomes of Education; Secondary Education; Teacher Student Ratio; Postsecondary Education; Ghana; Georgia; Vietnam; Indonesia; Moldova; Sri Lanka + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Bildungsfonds; Finanzmittel; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Globales Denken; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Risikogruppe; Early childhood; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Elementarunterricht; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Geschlechterstereotyp; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sekundarbereich; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Indonesien; Moldava; Moldau (Republik); Moldau; Moldawien; Moldawa; Moldowa; Ceylon
Abstract	There was much euphoria and enthusiasm surrounding the advent of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, but there was little empirical evidence regarding how much would be required of countries to achieve the goals. This article contributes to filling this gap by estimating what Ghana needs in fiscal terms to achieve SDG 4: Quality Education. The article estimated an education gap, which indicates the difference between what pertains to education indicators in Ghana and what SDG 4 sets to achieve. Further, the fiscal capacity needed to address the gap was estimated while taking cognisance of the nation's education budget and fiscal space from tax revenues. The results indicated that Ghana is inefficient in its allocation of education resources. While the top-performing countries are, on average, spending less (4.18%) of their gross domestic product (GDP) on education and achieving more, Ghana is spending more (6.16%) of its GDP on education but achieving less. Thus, Ghana faces more of an allocation and efficiency challenge contrary to a resource challenge to attain SDG 4. Provided the nation wants to maintain its inefficiency track, it will need to allocate an additional 0.58 per cent of its GDP to education to boost its educational performance to the level of the top-performing countries. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/1/01