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Education Reform in Mozambique : Lessons and Challenges

Fox, Louise; Santibañez, Lucrecia; Nguyen, Vy; André, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

The report opens with a brief description of the conceptual framework that guided the analysis as well as the data used. The next chapter presents the analysis of changes in household behavior and educational outcomes related to the implementation of the reforms, at both the primary and...

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Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo : Priorities and Options for Regeneration

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The main purpose of this report is to assist the Democratic Republic of Cong (DRC) to identify the priorities for education policy and present options in order to assist the government in developing an education strategy. This is necessary for preparing the government's Poverty Reduction...

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Central America Education Strategy : An Agenda for Action

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The main objective of this regional paper is to provide an in-depth diagnostic of where Central American countries stand along several education dimensions, underscoring the most urgent and serious challenges and suggesting policy options to address them. The report focuses on El Salvador,...

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Meeting the Challenges of Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia : Improving Efficiency and Resource Mobilization

Gropello, Emanuela di - Economics Research, World Bank Group

In a context of increased primary school enrollment rates, secondary education is appearing as the next big challenge for Latin American and East Asian countries. This report seeks to undertake a detailed diagnostic of secondary education in these two regions, understand some of the main...

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Teachers for Rural Schools : Experiences in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda

Mulkeen, Aidan; Chen, Dandan - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Achieving universal primary education and "Education for All" (EFA) is one of the development priorities within the context of the millennium development goals. In many Sub-Saharan African countries, one of the key challenges is to provide good-quality basic education to the 10-20 percent of...

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Skills for the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aedo, Cristian; Walker, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group

There is growing interest, worldwide, in the link between education systems and the production of skills that are valued in the labor market. With growth stagnating and unemployment soaring in much of the world, educators are being asked to focus more on producing skills that feed into labor...

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Changing the Trajectory : Education and Training for Youth in Democratic Republic of Congo

Bashir, Sajitha - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This report, Changing the Trajectory: education and training for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, provides an analysis of the current educational attainment and current school enrollment of youth in the 12 to 24 years age group and the educational opportunities and training...

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Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People : A New Agenda for Secondary Education

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The report offers policy options to support developing countries and transition economies in adapting their secondary education systems to the demands arising from the successful expansion of primary education and the socio-economic challenges presented by globalization and the knowledge-based...

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An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 2002-08 : Gender and Development

Group, Independent Evaluation - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This evaluation, which covers the period fiscal 2002-08, finds that the Bank made progress in gender integration …, compared with an earlier evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) on gender covering the period fiscal 1990 …-99. Gender integration into Bank support increased both in quantity and in scope, and more than half of relevant projects …

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Engendering Mines in Development : A Promising Approach from Papua New Guinea

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2012

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