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Philippines. Similarly, in the Philippines, literacy rates and enrollment rates vary widely across provinces. Literacy rates (for the population age 10 years and above) increased substantially over the five-year period from 1989 to 1994—by as much as nearly 20 percentage points in Western Mindanao, and by almost 15 percentage points in three other regions (see figure 9.4). With these gains, the literacy gap narrowed among the regions, but by 1994 literacy rates still ranged from 61 percent in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to 92 percent in the national capital region (metropolitan Manila). 15 These trends do not indicate that decentralization has helped re duce education gaps.

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Source Institution	World Bank
Source URL	http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEAPDECEN/Resources/Chapter-9.pdf
Page Count	30
Place of Publication	Pasig City
Original Publication Date
Tags	Decentralization, Decentralize, Education, Performance, Policy, Reform, Student