Development and social justice: Education, training and health in Sudan
Samia S. O. M. Nour
#2013-013
This paper discusses the importance of sound policies for achieving
social development and social justice in provision of education,
training and health services in Sudan. Different from Sudanese
literature, we provide new contributions by explaining the low
commitment to the standardized international equity criterion related to
the supply-demand sides and provision of education, training and health
services in Sudan. We fill an important gap in Sudanese literature by
explaining that regional inequality in the demand for education (share
in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per
capita income and poverty rate), demographic reasons (share in total
population) and other reasons (degree of urbanization) in Sudan. We find
that the increase in the incidence of high poverty rates and low per
capita incomes seem to be the most important factor limiting the demand
for education, notably, demand for primary education, especially for
females in Sudan. The major policy implication from our findings is that
poverty eradication is key for the achievement of universal access to
primary education, gender equality, equity, social justice and
therefore, fulfillment of the second and third UN-MDGs in Sudan by 2015.
We recommend further efforts to be made to improve equitable provision
of education, training and health services to enhance social justice and
social development in Sudan.
Keywords: Education, training, health, supply, demand, equity,
development, social justice, Sudan
JEL classification: I14, I24, I28, I1, I2, I0, I00