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BureaucratsBureaucratsPosted Apr 23, 2008 3:05 UTC (Wed) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)In reply to: Bureaucrats by rahvin Parent article: Walter Bender's "goodbye OLPC" note
IIRC countries like Mongolia and Peru spend over 3/4's of their education budget on textbooks. I call this number. The claim is 75% of the nation's elementary education budget being spent on textbooks. I don't speak Spanish so I couldn't check Peru. I've had a look at the English-language budgets for India and Papua New Guinea and I don't see that they spend anywhere near that proportion on textbooks. As you'd expect the majority of those two budgets is consumed by people and buildings. The figure for Mongolia is interesting. Japan, World Bank, ADB and national aid agencies have all poured funds into Mongolian education. A large part of those funds to go textbook development and production (but still not 75%, as far as I can tell from a quick look at UNICEF figures). But this is a product of Mongolia's history. Tibetan monks didn't use textbooks, Soviet-era textbooks are old and are wildly inaccurate in some fields, and there is no other country which is going to create Mongolian-language textbooks. The figures on expenditure on textbook authoring and publication in Mongolia are an outlier --- the circumstances leading to that expenditure are unlikely to appear elsewhere.
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