Publications on Education

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

• 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

• 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

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)

•  Attaining the Health and Education Millennium Development Goals in Nepal

• 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

• 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

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