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Highlights
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A New Beginning for Girl Child Laborers in Andhra Pradesh
As part of its poverty reduction efforts in Andhra Pradesh, two World Bank projects have empowered around 8 million poor rural households, particularly women, through the formation of Self Help Groups (SHG) and their federations. Many of these groups have identified child labor as a key area for collective action.
Sri Lanka: Developing the Lagging Regions
The country's strong economic growth has led to rapid poverty reduction in the past five years. Correspondingly, inequality among provinces, visible in the previous decade has also declined. One of key approaches was to improve educational opportunities for children by enhancing resource allocation and distribution.
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Recent Publications & Reports
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From Fragmentation to Cooperation: Tertiary Education, Research and Development in South Eastern Europe
By Toby Linden and Nina Arnhold with Kirill Vasiliev
This paper examines the challenges that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania, Serbia and Slovenia face in order to have a labor force with a significant pool of people with tertiary education qualifications. This argues for a well-designed implementation strategy and for a sharing of costs through regional collaboration. The paper is also available in Albanian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.
The Evolving Regulatory Context for Private Education in Emerging Economies
By John Fielden and Norman LaRocque
This publication has drawn upon international examples of regulatory policies for private providers and has set out a series of "propositions for good practice" for national policy makers to consider as they address the evolving regulatory context.
Quality of Schooling, Returns to Schooling and the 1981 Vouchers Reform in Chile
By Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou
The authors exploit unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main beneficiaries of the reform were those who at the time were pupils in basic schooling (ages 6-13).
The Alternative Tertiary Education Sector: More Than Non-University Education
By Samih W. Mikhail
This Working Paper includes a comparative study of alternative tertiary education in selected OECD countries and proposes a framework to facilitate the analysis of this sector, distill the lessons learned, and identify good practices to guide the development of the sector.
Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil
By Alberto Rodriguez, Carl Dahlman, and Jamil Salmi
This study provides a broad, cross-sectoral analysis of Brazil's capacity for producing knowledge and innovation. As such, it moves beyond the traditional recommendation of building a stable macroeconomic environment, business-friendly physical and policy infrastructure and instead seeks a more comprehensive approach.
Education, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana
By Geeta Kingdon and Mans Soderbom
This paper investigates the education-earnings relationship in Ghana, drawing on the Ghana Living Standards Survey for 1998-99. The analysis has three main goals: to examine the labor market returns to education among wage-employed, self-employed, and agricultural workers; to examine the labor market returns to the literacy and numeracy skills for these categories of workers; and to analyze the patterns of returns to education along the earnings distribution.
Education, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan
By Geeta Kingdon and Mans Soderbom
This paper investigates the education-earnings relationship in Pakistan, drawing on the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey's 1998-99 and 2001-02. The analysis has three main goals: to examine the labor market returns to education among waged, self-employed, and agricultural workers; to examine the labor market returns tot the literacy and numeracy skills for these categories of workers; and to analyze the patterns of returns to education along the earnings distribution.
India Shining and Bharat Drowning: Comparing Two Indian States to the Worldwide Distribution in Mathematics Achievement
By Jishnu Das & Tristan Zajonc
This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian states -Orissa and Rajasthan -on a worldwide distribution of mathematics achievement.
The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador
By Hessel Oosterbeek, Juan Ponce, Norbert Schady
This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families.
Is Migration a Good Substitute for Educational Subsidies?
By Frederic Docquier, Ousmane Faye, and Pierre Pestieau
Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the average level of schooling in developing countries. The theoretical analysis shows that developing countries can benefit from skilled emigration when educational subsidies entail high fiscal distortions. However, when taxes are not too distortionary, it is desirable to impede emigration and subsidize education.
Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
By Richard Akresh Damien de Walque
In Rwanda school enrollment trends suggest that the school system recovered quickly after 1994, but these numbers do not tell the full story. Two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide are used to compare children in the same age group who were and were not exposed to the genocide - and their educational outcomes are substantially different.
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Recent Events
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South Asia: Integrating Analytical Work in Operations
June 30, 2008
This workshop highlighted the emerging coda of analytical work in South Asia, ranging from integrating impact evaluations into project design, impact evaluation studies, sector/sub-sector analysis, and strengthening data systems.
Rethinking Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Education Development
Toulouse, Brussels, Geneva, London and Edinburgh
June 9 - 20, 2008
The key objectives for this Study Tour were to review recent trends in TVET, with the wider purpose of reviewing Bank policy on the restructuring of formal and non-formal education systems to ensure relevance of education and training in response to the changing patterns of employment, the needs of the labor market, and the rapid pace of change in technology and communications.
Strategic Choices for Education Reform: Description
World Bank Headquarters (Washington D.C., U.S.A.)
May 27 - June 7, 2008
Under increasing demand for a Global Core Course in Washington D.C. series (organized by the World Bank Institute), this Workshop was newly re-designed to assist countries build and enhance their capacities to attain EFA and MDGs and to strengthen their education systems for creating productive and dynamic economies. The Course focused on assisting countries to improve, through sector-wide reform, the quality, efficiency, equity, and sustainability of education provision. This was the 9th year of its delivery as a Global Core Course. IFC International Education Conference 2008: “Investing in the Future: Innovation in Private Education”
World Bank Headquarters (Washington D.C., U.S.A.)
May 14-15, 2008
The past five years have seen a considerable increase in the recognition of the significant contribution that private education can bring to emerging market countries. Many governments are actively encouraging private sector growth in education while remaining aware of the need to ensure that such provision meets appropriate standards and benchmarks.
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Recent Projects
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Burkina Faso: Basic Education Sector Project
Approval Date: June 10, 2008
IDA Credit: US$15 million
This Project aims to improve the gross primary enrollment rate currently at 67%, the gross intake rate at first grade of 78% and the primary achievement rate of 39%. The building of school canteens will support vulnerable children in poor families in rural areas and girls by providing a nutritional safety net. By strengthening the sector’s management and monitoring, the program will provide management improvement which will strengthen the foundation for a sustainable education sector program in the context of decentralization. Finally, it will provide training, curriculum enhancement, and pedagogical materials that will contribute to greater learning outcomes.
China: Rural Migrant Skills Development and Employment Project
Approval Date: June 24, 2008
IBRD Loan: US$50 million
This project aims to support the transition of rural workers to urban areas to access better employment opportunities that improve their incomes and working conditions. This objective will be achieved by: (i) improving the access of rural workers to skills development opportunities, (ii) reducing the cost of their job search through access to enhanced employment services, and (iii) removing the worst excesses of their transition through strengthened worker protections.
Tanzania : Science and Technology Higher Education Project
Approval Date: May 27, 2008
IDA Credit: US$ 100 Million
The project aims to increase the quantity and quality of higher education graduates, with special emphasis on science, technology, and education, through an improved learning environment. The Project will invest in two broad areas: (a) capacity to deliver specific degree projects of high priority; and (b) institutions and systems to support higher education generally.
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Education - Did you know?
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Education Project Database in EdStats
The new version of the World Bank Education Project Database allows users to search for projects approved by the education sector between 1998 and 2007. Users may search by country name or education topical areas to generate a listing of education projects. Visit WB Education Project Database to find out about this new function.
The third issue of the Edstats Newsletter can also be accessed from the main Edstats website.
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