Akabzaa Roland
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Region and are home to the Dagombas. Nabogu was added because the population of Napkazoo was less than the required population of the Project.
Education is seen as the bedrock of national development. It contributes to national development through human capital formation, a prerequisite for every nation’s socioeconomic
development. However quality education requires substantial resource investment.
However, public provision of educational services is always constrained by the availability of public resources. Their ability to raise enough public revenue is constrained by macroeconomic and growth instability, high debt ratios, weak tax administration and large informal sectors. The desire for quality accessible education and the constraints of inadequate financial resources has compelled Ghana to seek external assistance to fill the resources gaps in providing quality education to its citizenry. Over the last two decades, aid has increased in quantity and prominence in Ghana’s education sector.
The research seeks to assess the impact of aid to the educational sector over the last two decades in term of access to quality education especially at the basic level. Provide a trend analysis of financing education in Ghana over the last two decades. It Identifies and discusses how aid has transformed the educational landscape in terms of provision of education inputs such as infrastructure. The study over the years donor assistance has helped increased the educational infrastructure as wells other educational quality inputs. Although government funding of education has been increasing, donor resources remained important because it fills gap in financing in the investment and services aspect of education since government spending in the sector largely (almost 90%) to salaries and administration
Region and are home to the Dagombas. Nabogu was added because the population of Napkazoo was less than the required population of the Project.
Education is seen as the bedrock of national development. It contributes to national development through human capital formation, a prerequisite for every nation’s socioeconomic
development. However quality education requires substantial resource investment.
However, public provision of educational services is always constrained by the availability of public resources. Their ability to raise enough public revenue is constrained by macroeconomic and growth instability, high debt ratios, weak tax administration and large informal sectors. The desire for quality accessible education and the constraints of inadequate financial resources has compelled Ghana to seek external assistance to fill the resources gaps in providing quality education to its citizenry. Over the last two decades, aid has increased in quantity and prominence in Ghana’s education sector.
The research seeks to assess the impact of aid to the educational sector over the last two decades in term of access to quality education especially at the basic level. Provide a trend analysis of financing education in Ghana over the last two decades. It Identifies and discusses how aid has transformed the educational landscape in terms of provision of education inputs such as infrastructure. The study over the years donor assistance has helped increased the educational infrastructure as wells other educational quality inputs. Although government funding of education has been increasing, donor resources remained important because it fills gap in financing in the investment and services aspect of education since government spending in the sector largely (almost 90%) to salaries and administration