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Groundwater Quality : A Strategic Approach

World Bank - 2022

This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and “A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...

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Does tougher import competition foster product quality upgrading ?

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2009

"Over the past two decades, globalization, and more specifically the increased exposure to competition from low … costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … competition on product quality. This effect is found to be particularly strong for non-exporting plants. The results also show …

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Which doctor? : combining vignettes and item response to measure doctor quality

Das, Jishnu - 2004

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Land quality indicators

Pieri, Christian J. M. G. (contributor) - 1995

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EFA in Indonesia : Hard Lessons About Quality

World Bank - 2012

Indonesia has seen vast improvements in access to education over the past thirty years. It is a good example of a country that has followed a disciplined linear approach to EFA: Indonesia focused first on primary school access, next on lower secondary school access, and is only now attempting to...

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Unpackaging demand for water service quality : evidence from conjoint surveys in Sri Lanka

Jones, Kelly (contributor) - 2006

"In the early 2000s, the Government of Sri Lanka considered engaging private sector operators to manage water and sewerage services in two separate service areas: one in the town of Negombo (north of Colombo), and one stretching along the coastal strip (south from Colombo) from the towns of...

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Mozambique Service Delivery Indicators

World Bank - 2015

Mozambique is poised to meet the MDG goal of 100 percent primary education enrollment. The achievement will have limited impact if the quality of the education that pupil has access to is lacking. Education quality will critically determine whether the promise of the newfound mineral wealth is...

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Deepening Public Service Unit Reform to Improve Service Delivery

World Bank - 2012

The "Public Service Unit" (PSU), or shiye danwei, is one of the four categories of public sector institutions in China. The country has more than one million public service units (PSUs), or shiye danwei, with a labor force of around 30 million. Most PSUs were created as public service providers....

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Teachers in Lebanon : Understanding the Quality of Teachers' Instructional Practices and Performance

World Bank - 2021

This report presents detailed findings of a teacher performance study in Lebanon, one of four studies carried out under the Research for Results (R4R) program, a partnership between the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Development Partners. The objective of the research...

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Indonesia Teacher Certification and Beyond : An Empirical Evaluation of the Teacher Certification Program and Education Quality Improvements in Indonesia

World Bank - 2016

The certification program aimed to certify all teachers by 2015. The program was rolled out at a rate of approximately 200,000 teachers each year. This report evaluates the certification program as it was implemented, in terms of its impact on student-learning outcomes. Results of the analysis...

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