With the continent’s largest health care sector, South Africa’s government has focused heavy investment in the industry, and its thriving private sector is keeping pace, accounting for about half of overall spending. Between them, per capita spending on health care is among the highest on the continent, and outstrips that of...
Galvanised by encouraging policy-driven results, as well as by the 2011 constitutional amendments that enshrined access to health care as a basic right of all citizens, Morocco is securing the gains it has made over the past two decades. The government is hoping a regional approach to health care management will help improve governance and reduce...
In a bid to reduce the gap between health care access in urban districts and rural areas, as well as increase support for low-income citizens, the government has shifted rolling out its new health insurance programme into full gear. The new medical assistance regime (Regime d'Assistance Medicale, RAMED) was officially inaugurated by King Mohamed VI...
Significant improvements have been made since independence in Algerian health care and more are under way to increase access to quality services and align the sector with international standards. Health indictors have gotten better since the 1960s – overall life expectancy at birth has risen from 49 in 1962 to 76.3 in 2010. This can be explained by...
With significant improvements in education over the past decade, Algeria now has a primary enrolment rate over 95% and has made considerable progress in eliminating illiteracy, the rate of which is now under 8% for those aged 15-24. However, with more than 70% of the population under the age of 30, the number of students entering the school system...
To address the high rate of youth unemployment and bring skills in line with international standards, Algeria’s government is looking to diversify degrees in tertiary education to meet the economy’s growing demands for skilled labour. To achieve its objective, the country is boosting partnerships with foreign institutions to diversify offerings. “...
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