Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities : a data-driven approach to teacher deployment (English)

There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated near commercial centers and in rural schools with better amenities. Most of the variation in PTR is concentrated in small sub-district areas, suggesting a central role for micro-geographic factors in teacher distribution. Employing administrative data from several government sources, regression analysis reveals that school-level factors...

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Asim,Salman;

Chimombo,Joseph P. G.;

Chugunov,Dmitry;

Gera,Ravinder Madron Casley;
Document Date
2017/11/22
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8253
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Malawi,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/11/22
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities : a data-driven approach to teacher deployment
Keywords
Teachers

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Asim,Salman; Chimombo,Joseph P. G.; Chugunov,Dmitry; Gera,Ravinder Madron Casley.

Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities : a data-driven approach to teacher deployment (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8253 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/286131511361864175

Moving teachers to Malawi's remote communities : a data-driven approach to teacher deployment (English)

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