Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global … development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to make their learning the center of all efforts to …

report presents portraits of the out-of-work population of six countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and …

This report documents the progress of Lithuania in science, technology and innovation (STI) in areas singled out by … three major international reports prepared by the Norwegian Research Council (1996), the World Bank (2003) and the CREST … improvement of the basic framework conditions for R&D in Lithuania. Nonetheless challenges remain. In order to further the …

.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

pressures from civil society leaders can reform local governance in a context where neither of these mechanisms operates …, one in which only village heads were trained on the framework governing village leadership, and one in which civil society … leaders were trained alongside village heads. The results suggest that horizontal pressure from civil society leaders …

, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was … the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school …-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation …