THE World Bank has advised Papua New Guinea to grow the national economy and its human capital by implementing tax reforms and improving the employment conditions of teachers.
The bank’s Asia-Pacific regional director, Michel Kerf, told leaders at a summit in Port Moresby that PNG’s neighbours Vietnam and Indonesia were enjoying powerful economies and human capital because of reforms to tax and education. “In Vietnam, teachers’ conditions were strongly emphasised to boost their effort to provide quality education services to the children,” he said yesterday. “In Indonesia, they have improved their tax collection in a more transparent and rational manner. “They have also increased credits for small people to start up small projects.” Kerf said PNG could replicate Vietnam and Indonesia’s education and microeconomic reforms to build on what it had already invested in these sectors. He said a poor country like Vietnam had paid a lot of attention to the quality of teachers. It shocked the world in 2015 when 15-year-old Vietnamese children participated in an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development programme for international student assessments. The National
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Pius Damien Taman
4/1/2017 01:45:19 pm
GOVERNMENT FULL BACKING FOR QUALITY TEACHERS
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