Making Student Loans Work in Africa
Making Student Loans Work in Africa
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10.6017/ijahe.v2i1.9256
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2016-03
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D. Johnstone
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D. Johnstone
Cost-Sharing—meaning the shift of a portion of the costs of higher education (including the costs of student living) that may once have been borne predominantly or even exclusively by governments, or taxpayers, to parents and students—has been deeply contested, but found to be financially necessary (and according to many analysts more equitable) in more and more countries, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. Student loans have been part of this process, allowing students the opportunity to invest in their own further educations, placing needed revenue in the hands of students supposedly at less cost to taxpayers than outright grants (presuming loan recovery), and providing colleges and universities (again presuming loan recovery) with revenue that would not be forthcoming from governments. However, African student loan programs have been largely unsuccessful at providing significant net revenue supplementation: that is, after covering the cost of capital as well as the costs of originating, servicing, and collecting plus covering the substantial costs of defaults. This essay analyzes some of these problems and suggests some principles for making student loans work better in Africa. Le partage des couts – c’est-a-dire le transfert aux parents et etudiants d’une partie du cout de l’enseignement superieur (y compris le cout de la vie), qui etait auparavant pris en charge majoritairement ou meme exclusivement par le gouvernement, ou plutot les contribuables– a ete fortement conteste mais est devenu necessaire (et selon de nombreux analystes est plus equitable) dans un nombre croissant de pays, notamment en Afrique sub-saharienne. Les prets etudiants font partie integrante de ce processus, donnant aux etudiants l’opportunite d’investir dans leur propre education, en mettant les revenus necessaires entre les mains des etudiants, en principe a moindre cout pour le contribuable que les bourses (en presumant le remboursement du pret), et fournissant aux etablissements d’enseignement superieur (toujours en presumant le remboursement du pret) des revenus qui ne proviennent pas des gouvernements. Cependant, les programmes de prets etudiants en Afrique ont largement echoue a fournir d’importants revenus complementaires, une fois couverts le cout du capital ainsi que les frais de dossier, de service, de collection, et le cout considerable des defauts de paiement. Cet essai analyse certains de ces problemes et propose quelques principes pour que les prets etudiants fonctionnent mieux en Afrique.