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""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Rising demand for education and teachers""; ""Resource levels for education and how money is spent""; ""What teacherss are asked and what they are offered""; ""Reader�s guide""; ""Definitions and methods""; ""Coverage of the data""; ""Calcu...

""Figure 1.2. Government revenue as a percentage of GDP, 1990 and late 1980s""""Figure 1.3. GDP per capita, 1995, 1997 and 1999""; ""Figure 1.4. GDP per capita and income disparity in the 1990s""; ""2. Teachers and the funding and governance of education""; ""Availability of public resources""; ""Fi...

""Figure 1.8. Expenditure per student as a percentage of GDP per capita, 1998""""Figure 1.9. Capital and compensation-related expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure in primary and secondary levels, 1998""; ""Governance of schools""; ""Figure 1.10. Compensation for teachers and other staff...

""Table 1.2. Levels of authority over educational decision-making at ISCED 1/2, 1997""""3. Teachers and the organisation of learning""; ""Growing levels of participation in education""; ""Figure 1.11. Expected years of schooling and GDP per capita, 1998""; ""Figure 1.12. Expected years of schooling...

""Figure 1.15. Upper secondary graduation rates by type of programme, 1998""""Figure 1.16. Tertiary graduation rates by type of programme, 1998""; ""Table 1.3. Prevalence of multiple-shift schooling, late 1990s""; ""Box 1.2. What happens in the classroom? Evidence from international assessments""; "...

""4. Profiles of the teaching force""