
A Conversation with Simón Gaviria
With no time to lose, Colombia’s newly appointed Director of National Planning has gotten to work on an ambitious agenda.
Since 1995 Casanare showed great progress in education. The increase in quota was three time higher than the national average and enrollment reached 81%. Casanare also managed to decrease repetition and droupt rates, decrease the differences among children from rural and urban areas and to increase the proportion of teachers with a specialization, and between 1998 and 2002, to increase education spending three times faster than the nation.
With no time to lose, Colombia’s newly appointed Director of National Planning has gotten to work on an ambitious agenda.
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