Meeting the Challenges of Secondary Education in MENA Region: Improving Efficiency of Resources

The overall research question for this study is how can a country achieve better outcomes and ensure more equity given a fixed budget? In other words, it analyzes the main bottlenecks and opportunities for improving the cost-effectiveness in secondary education and for reconciling quality and equity. This study focuses on students’ performance per international evaluations, the high achievement gap between the socio-economic groups, the gender dimension in achievement and, finally, the efficiency of public spending on education using a non-parametric method.