Publications on Education

• Skills Development in Afghanistan
• Investing in Afghanistan's Future: A Strategy Note on the Education System in Afghanistan

• Education for All in Bangladesh. Where Does Bangladesh Stand in Achieving the EFA Goals by 2015?
• Roll Call: Teacher Absence in Bangladesh
• Changing norms about gender inequality in education: evidence from Bangladesh
• School choice and cognitive achievement in rural Bangladesh
• Madrasas and NGOs: Complements or substitutes? Non-State Providers and Growth in Female Education in Bangladesh
• The dynamics of school and work in rural Bangladesh

• Findings from the Bhutan Learning Quality Survey

• Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation Package 
• Addressing educational disparity : using district level education development indices for equitable resource allocations in India
• Progress in participation in tertiary education in India from 1983 to 2004
• India Shining and Bharat Drowning: Comparing Two Indian States to the Worldwide Distribution in Mathematics Achievement
• India and the Knowledge Economy: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities
• Financing Elementary Education in India through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: Challenges in recent times
• Orienting Outlays toward Needs: An evidence-based, equity-focused approach for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
• What is the Progress in Elementary Education Participation in India During the Last Two Decades? An Analysis using NSS Education Rounds
• Skill Development in India The Vocational Education and Training System
• Learning Achievements in India: A Study of Primary Education in Rajasthan
• Learning Achievements in India: A Study of Primary Education in Orissa
• Exports, university-industry linkages, and innovation challenges in Bangalore, India
• Is skill-biased technological change here yet ? Evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990
• Scientific and Technical Manpower Development in India
• Education System Performance among Indian States: A Public Expenditure Efficiency Analysis using Linear Programming Methods
• Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from India
• Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes ? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Making primary education work for India's rural poor: a proposal for effective decentralization
• Snakes and ladders: factors influencing successful primary school completion for children in poverty contexts
• Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot
• Equity in enrollment and completion in elementary schooling in India : evidence from recent household surveys
• A review of educational progress and reform in the district primary education program (Phases I and II)
• Secondary Education in India
• Achieving the MDGs in India's Poor States - Reducing Child Mortality in Orissa of May 2007
• Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in India of December 2, 2004
• A policy note on the grant-in-aid system in Indian education : main issues and options for reform
• Karnataka: Financing Education in the Context of Economic Restructuring
• Public Participation, Teacher Accountability, and School Outcomes: Findings from Baseline Surveys in Three Indian States, November 2008
• Community Participation in Public Schools: The Impact of Information Campaigns in Three Indian States, November 2008

Non-World Bank Publications by World Bank Staff

• Journal of American Medical Association: Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India. A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Select Begin manual download)
• The Pearl of Great Price: Achieving Equitable Access to Primary and Secondary Education and Enhancing Learning in Sri Lanka 

•  Attaining the Health and Education Millennium Development Goals in Nepal

• National Qualifications Framework Essentials 
• Conditional cash transfers and female schooling: the impact of the female school stipend program on public school enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan
• A dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan
• Learning Levels and Gaps in Pakistan
• Higher Education Policy Note: An Assessment of the Medium-Term Development Framework
• Education, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan 
• Promotion with and without learning: effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior

• Higher Education Report, the Towers of Learning: Performance, Peril and Promise 
• The Pearl of Great Price: Promoting Equitable Access to Education in Sri Lanka Over Sixty Years
• Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Sri Lanka : How likely and what will it take to reduce poverty, child mortality and malnutrition, and to increase school enrollment and completion?
• Treasures of the Education System in Sri Lanka: Restoring Performance, Expanding Opportunties and Enhancing Prospects
• The impact of school quality, socio economic factors and child health on students' academic performance: Evidence from Sri Lankan primary schools

• The Knowledge Economy and Education in South Asia
• Overview of Policy Briefs: Teacher Development and Management

Non-World Bank Publications by World Bank Staff

• Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
• Economics of Education Review: Major Contributions and Future Directions – The Dijon Papers

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