Investment in education and development process in Congo

Author: 
Léon MAYEKO
Abstract: 

The development process, despite the increase in primary and secondary enrollment, is slow to take off in the Congo. Successive educational policies, which have relied on a change in public spending on education at an annual average rate of less than 1%, have not improved the quality of education (demand for skilled labor limited). From the results obtained, it is noted that the gross domestic product per capita, with a probability equal to 0.0348 lower than 5%, causes the number of primary school pupils, while the opposite is not true. From these results we also note that gross fixed capital formation causes the number of primary school pupils, and not the opposite. This situation shows that progress in the development of schooling has had little impact on growth.

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