improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian … of LAC's teachers, and delineates the key issues. These include low standards for entry into teacher training, poor … quality training programs that are detached from the realities of the classroom, unattractive career incentives, and weak …

, and the improvement of poor people's human well-being based on Amartya Sen's capability approach. The book provides rich …

Delivery of Education Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The … infringe on the effectiveness of service delivery in the education sector. Country teams prepared country assessments of … intergovernmental arrangements in the education sector. Each country report reviewed the roles being played by different actors in the …

and training, to labor market demand. In primary education, challenges remain to raise educational enrollment rates and … and technical education, the provision of training should be rationalized, to reduce costs, aligning training to labor … environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding …