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  "title": "Sierra Leone: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, April 17, 2020",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper on Sierra Leone shows that boosting education and its quality for all children yields substantial macroeconomic gains.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings on education and macroeconomic impact",
      "content": "- Boosting education and its quality for all children yields substantial macroeconomic gains.\n- The results indicate the macroeconomic benefits of education could be substantial, in the order of up to 40 percent of gross domestic product in the long run.\n- Several factors currently within and beyond the education sector constrain efforts that could effectively reap the economic benefits from education."
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      "heading": "Policy priorities and recommendations",
      "content": "- Equalizing access to education emerges as a critical goal for shared prosperity across the population.\n- Attaining free secondary education for all is identified as a critical long-run objective.\n- With limited fiscal space and vast challenges in the sector, evidence-based prioritizing, sequencing and targeting of policies is critical.\n- Careful monitoring of education spending and its impacts will help reassess programs and priorities going forward.\n- Enhancing the governance of the sector to ensure that spending is well-aligned with needs in the various levels is important.\n- Tackling the education challenge will require coordinated work to overcome hurdles in several sectors."
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      "heading": "Implementation considerations and constraints",
      "content": "- Investments in the sector will take time to yield results, creating a need for sustained, multi-pronged policy interventions.\n- Several factors both within and beyond the education sector constrain effective implementation of policies that would capture the economic benefits from education.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Sierra Leone: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/117; March 24, 2020\n  - Sierra Leone: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/117; March 24, 2020 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Sierra Leone: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/117; March 24, 2020 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: April 17, 2020",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513541310.002",
    "Boosting education and its quality for all children yields substantial macroeconomic gains.",
    "The results indicate the macroeconomic benefits of education could be substantial, in the order of up to 40 percent of gross domestic product in the long run.",
    "Several factors currently within and beyond the education sector constrain efforts that could effectively reap the economic benefits from education.",
    "Equalizing access to education emerges as a critical goal for shared prosperity across the population.",
    "Attaining free secondary education for all is identified as a critical long-run objective.",
    "With limited fiscal space and vast challenges in the sector, evidence-based prioritizing, sequencing and targeting of policies is critical.",
    "Careful monitoring of education spending and its impacts will help reassess programs and priorities going forward.",
    "Enhancing the governance of the sector to ensure that spending is well-aligned with needs in the various levels is important.",
    "Tackling the education challenge will require coordinated work to overcome hurdles in several sectors.",
    "Investments in the sector will take time to yield results, creating a need for sustained, multi-pronged policy interventions.",
    "Several factors both within and beyond the education sector constrain effective implementation of policies that would capture the economic benefits from education.",
    "**Sierra Leone: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/117; March 24, 2020**"
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