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Improving Education Quality: The Returns to Teacher Training In Madagascar, Republic of Madagascar

By Kodjovi M. Eklou, Ialy Rasoamanana, Joanne Tan, Mamy Andrianarilala, Rolland Andrianjaka, Chrystelle Tsafack, Almedina Music

April 1, 2025

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Kodjovi M. Eklou, Ialy Rasoamanana, Joanne Tan, Mamy Andrianarilala, Rolland Andrianjaka, Chrystelle Tsafack, and Almedina Music. "Improving Education Quality: The Returns to Teacher Training In Madagascar, Republic of Madagascar", Selected Issues Papers 2025, 027 (2025), accessed April 16, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229005005.018

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This paper highlights the role of teacher training in improving educational outcomes in Madagascar. With a low and stagnating Human Capital Index of 0.39 and high learning poverty rates, economic growth is hindered by an inadequately skilled workforce. This paper finds that doubling the share of qualified primary school teachers, from the current 15 to 30 percent, would allow Madagascar to harness its demographic dividend, raising per capita real GDP growth by around 2.5 to 3.1 percentage points in Madagascar.

Subject: Education, Education spending, Expenditure, Human capital, Labor, Labor force participation, Population and demographics

Keywords: Demographic dividend, District level in Madagascar, Education outcomes, Education sector, Education spending, FRAM teacher, Human capital, Labor force participation, Sub-Saharan Africa, Teacher ratio, Teacher training

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