Education has emerged as an essential component of the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe …. Although the countries of the region inherited broadly accessible education systems, the legacies of central planning have … of education in nine Central and East European countries by drawing on the findings of a World Bank project that examined …

Moldova's public expenditures on education as a share of GDP and total public sector spending are higher than in most … to improve the quality and efficiency of education provision need to be addressed in a context of declining student … of pre-school and general education related to the decentralized governance mechanism. They relate both to the (de jure …

Decentralization and Deconcentration) in Cambodia and describes how their design, implementation, and institutional arrangements can be …

ongoing decentralization process. The note recognizes the potential of decentralization to enhance local service delivery, if … done well. Hence, the policy note assesses the current state of decentralization in Togo, with a specific focus on … decentralization from central government to communes, the lowest level of government, and front-line for local service delivery. The …

. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …

Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …

This policy note presents the main features of the fiscal decentralization framework in Croatia, analyzed in reference …