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Colombia Resource Allocation
The national government had assumed a progressively
more
important role in financing education in Colombia since
the 1960s.
In addition to the Ministry of Education, the only
important source
of public funds for education was Sena, which spent around
10
percent of the total spent on education. Sena obtained its
resources from a special tax on corporations based on
their number
of employees.
In Colombia public expenditures for education hovered
around 3
percent of the gross national product
(GNP--see Glossary)
from the
beginning of the 1970s through the mid-1980s. Private
expenditures
represented between 1.5 percent and 2 percent of GNP.
These
statistics indicated that public expenditures on education
in
Colombia fell well below the average of other similar
Latin
American countries, whereas private expenditures were
higher than
in comparable nations.
Data as of December 1988
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