Impacto de la inversión pública en el sistema educativo: caso provincia de El Oro período 2010-2020.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of public investment in the educational system within the province of El Oro for the period 2010-2020. For that, the main indicators that are Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) and public spending on education are taken as a reference to identify their evolution through their variations. In this sense, it also seeks to express the affectation towards other indicators such as the average years of schooling, the total number of institutions, the total number of teachers and students, school dropout rate, gross value added, income poverty and unemployment. For this, a documentary-descriptive methodology is considered, which allows the collection of both qualitative and quantitative information regarding the object of study. The methods applied in the investigation are the deductive and the synthetic analytical. The results of the investigation specify a decrease in public investment for the education sector of -2.6% for the last 10 years, negative variations for public spending in the years 2019 and 2020 of -1.6% and -12.8%, the number of teacher who are immersed in the education sector decreased by -1.9% for the study period. The average years of schooling reach 10.4 years, the illiteracy rate stands at 4.0% by 2020, the number of institutions has decreased over the last 10 years with an average of -4.3%. Regarding the gross value added in the education sector, it has has negative variations in 2019 and 2020 with a percentage of -0.5% and -1.2%.