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CHAPTER 3
Education Sector Corruption
in Ethiopia
Michael Latham
Introduction
Recognizing the importance of education in the development of
Ethiopia, the government of Ethiopia has over the past two decades
focused efforts on a range of interventions to improve the delivery of
educational services. Supported by donor partners and guided by the
education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government
has embarked on a process of education sector reform and service
improvement aimed at enhancing the levels of access for the poor and
employing approaches that respond more closely to demands from
end users.
In recent years education budgets in Ethiopia have been relatively
high (6 percent in 2006) as a proportion of gross domestic product
(CIA 2006) and significant (20–25 percent) as a proportion of government
spending (Dom 2009), but they are still low in terms of absolute
Although this chapter results from studies completed by January 2010, the process of checking,
reviewing, and securing agreement for publication was finally brought to conclusion
only in late 2011. The chapter is therefore put forward with the caveat that while it reflects
the situation at the time of the study, some details will have understandably changed.
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