worryingly high. More than five million youths have failed to complete a basic education. Alternative Learning System (ALS) is a … analyzes (a) the target populations, (b) current beneficiaries, (c) delivery modes (with a focus on learning facilitators …

at scale to provide online learning when all or many schools are closed. Related 'good practices' are considered rare … of learners and education systems across the so-called 'developing world'. That said, it is possible to extrapolate from …

COVID-19-related school closures are pushing countries off track from achieving their learning goals. This paper builds … on the concept of learning poverty and draws on axiomatic properties from social choice literature to propose and … motivate a distribution-sensitive measures of learning poverty. Numerical, empirical, and practical reasons for the relevance …

, 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 …

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 …

Before the outbreak of the global novel coronavirus pandemic, the world was already dealing with a learning crisis, as … utilize remote learning to manage and cope with the crisis. The World Bank is actively working with Ministries of Education in … evidenced by high levels of Learning Poverty. With the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), among many disruptions to …

Is TV-based learning during COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh reaching students? Most students (86 percent) within … our sample of more than 2,000 Grade 9 stipend recipients are aware of government provided TV-based learning programs; yet … access to government provided online learning programs, and among those that do, only about 2 percent choose to access them …

This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool against gambling and lottery behavior in South Africa. The …