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In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, spoke about Education for All being at the forefront of the development agenda. He spoke about four pillars to improve the education: (i) More aid: Education for all; (ii) Better aid: Quality of education that ensure the financial resources to align...
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This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1) maintain its core functions in the midst of a...
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The World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2009-2012 marks Indonesia's re-emergence as a confident middle-income country, and one that is enjoying a rising regional and global standing. Ten years ago, Indonesia was in the middle of an extremely severe economic crisis. Today,...
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and health, save for retirement, capitalize on business opportunities, and confront shocks. In the Europe and Central Asia …
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The share of immigrants in Western and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly over the past four decades.Today, one of … every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place … sendingcountries of Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. This update focuses on the design ofpolicies on labor …
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The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply …
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This paper assesses the consequences of implementing a joint liability debt system in a two-country small open economy model. With joint liability a default of one country makes the other participant liable for its debt. The results highlight a trade-off between the contagion risk, in the sense...
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multidimensional connectivity, is broadened and explored in this study as it applies to Europe and Central Asia. Focusing on countries … from the Europe and Central Asia region, the paper shows that multidimensional connectivity is an economically and …
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growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that … critical for achieving the greatest impact on growth.Europe and Central Asia provides a great laboratory for observing the role … within the Europe and Central Asia region and globally. The message is timely. Europe's once-confident march toward economic …
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