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Building Forward Better to Ensure Learning for All Children in Iraq : An Education Reform Path
World Bank Group - 2021
Human capital development is imperative to achieve sustainable economic growth in Iraq. At the heart of Iraq's human capital crisis is a learning crisis, which is exacerbated by effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on education service delivery. The low levels of human capital...
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Improving the Performance of Higher Education in Vietnam : Strategic Priorities and Policy Options
World Bank Group - 2020
education are above fifteen percent, one of the highest levels in the world. As Vietnam aspires to become an upper middle …
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Higher Education Governance in Guinea
World Bank Group - 2015
The World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Guinea in FY 2014-171 confirmed the Government's priority to … international donor community, including the World Bank, to come forward and support the new government. The World Bank will partner … the business environment and education system with Guinea's economy' (World Bank, 2013, pp. 1). This is in line with the …
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Regional Integration for Higher Education Development : Options for the South Asia Region
World Bank Group - 2023
Higher education systems in South Asia have undergone significant changes in the past two decades. Each country in the region has experienced a rapid rise in university enrollment, fueled by demographic growth and the resulting expansion of secondary education. However, in the absence of...
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Group - 2020
Conceived in order to provide a crucial baseline in research on internationalization in MENA, this report draws on available data to respond to both a real need for regional analysis and a direct demand from stakeholders, including tertiary education institutions in the region. Encouraging...
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Niger Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment
World Bank Group - 2021
Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most of the labor force is employed in a low productivity and shock prone rainfed agricultural...
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Education Public Expenditure Review Guidelines
World Bank Group - 2017
Public expenditure reviews are one of the World Bank's core diagnostic tools for informing various stakeholders about … the World Bank's twin goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity in the education sector implies the need to use …
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The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Global Trade and Investment
World Bank Group - 2022
report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …
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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor
World Bank Group - 2009
In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Bhutan's Integration with the Global Economy : International Investment Treaties and Conventions
World Bank Group - 2019
In this context, Bhutan can become wealthier through accelerating both domestic and foreign investment, as well as signing investment treaties. These investments could provide not just capital but also bring necessary skills, knowledge and ideas, and help the country move beyond hydropower....
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