The State of Education in Afghanistan and the Application of a Linear Programming Model

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Ulfat, Abderrahman
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Bennett, Robert L.
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In this study the role of education in economic
development is briefly discussed; the state of education
in Afghanistan is assessed and compared with a group of
Asian countries.
Through the application of a constrained maximization
model the rate of return to primary education
in Afghanistan is obtained. Discounted streams of income
and cost, associated with different levels of education,
were used as the coefficients of the equation
which was set to maximize the return to education; the
different categories of students and the needed teachers
constrained the maximization of the afore-mentioned
equation. The model thus described was also dynamic-given
a group of youngsters it advanced them to higher
levels of education and also generated the required
number of teachers from those students.
Education in the elementary level is found to
be a profitable investment for Afghanistan to undertake.
The rate of return to six years of education in this
model is more than five percent and for the first three
years it is more than ten percent.