Documents et rapports
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Paying for performance : an analysis of output-based aid in education (anglais)
Over the last decade, growing attention has been paid to emerging mechanisms for results-based financing (RBF) that seek to address the perceived shortcomings of traditional development aid and financing...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 103572 Date du document: 1 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hill, Tara,Fredriksen,Birger J.,Isenman,Paul,Rosenberg, Allison,Jayaram,Shubha
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Getting textbooks to every child in Sub-Saharan Africa : strategies for addressing the high cost and low availability problem (anglais)
This book offers policy options that can help reduce textbook costs and increase their supply. The book explores, in depth, the cost and financial barriers that restrict textbook availability in schools...
Numéro du rapport: 96468 Date du document: 13 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Brar,Sukhdeep,Trucano,Michael
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Getting textbooks to every child in Sub-Saharan Africa : strategies for addressing the high cost and low availability problem : Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d’Afrique Subsaharienne : stratégies de lutte contre leur cherté et leur faible disponibilité (français)
This book offers policy options that can help reduce textbook costs and increase their supply. The book explores, in depth, the cost and financial barriers that restrict textbook availability in schools...
Numéro du rapport: 96468 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Brar,Sukhdeep,Trucano,Michael
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Toward a better future : education and training for economic development in Singapore since 1965 : Hacia un futuro mejor : educacion y formacion para el desarrollo economico de Singapur desde 1965 (espagnol)
The Singapore economy has undergone significant stages of development since the 1960s. It has grown from its traditional role as a regional port and distribution center in the 1960s to an international...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 43968 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Goh, Chor Boon,,Lee, Sing-Kong,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Sustaining educational and economic momentum in Africa (anglais)
The conference brought together 44 African ministers of finance and of education from 28 African countries for a structured dialogue on sustaining Africa's economic and educational progress in the current...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 54444 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Righetti,Petra
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The evolving allocative efficiency of education aid : a reflection on changes in aid priorities to enhance aid effectiveness (anglais)
At the mid-point to 2015, most developing countries and their external partners can take pride in remarkable progress towards the Education for All (EFA) goals agreed at the 2000 Dakar World Education...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 47202 Date du document: 1 novembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.
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An African exploration of the East Asian education experience (anglais)
Contents of the report are as follows: East Asia education study tour: an overview of key insights by Birger Fredriksen, and Tan Jee Peng. Education in Africa: knowledge makes the difference by Mamadou...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 43967 Date du document: 29 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Tan,Jee-Peng,Ndoye,Mamadou, Boon, Goh Chor,Gopinathan,Saravanan, Kinh, Nguyen Quang,Nguyen,Chi Quoc,Lee,Chong Jae,Benveniste,Luis,O'Hare,Daniel
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An African exploration of the East Asian educatIon experience (anglais)
This introductory chapter summarizes the insights from the visit and relates them to the education challenges faced by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa today. Chapter two contains a detailed discussion...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 54304 Date du document: 29 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Toward a better future : education and training for economic development in Singapore since 1965 (anglais)
The Singapore economy has undergone significant stages of development since the 1960s. It has grown from its traditional role as a regional port and distribution center in the 1960s to an international...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 43968 Date du document: 18 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Goh, Chor Boon,,Lee, Sing-Kong,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Accelerating the education sector response to HIV/AIDS in Africa : a review of World Bank assistance (anglais)
This report examines World Bank financing for the Education Sector HIV/AIDS Response in Sub-Saharan Africa, up to mid-2004. The review was undertaken in response to a consultation with African countries...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 34047 Date du document: 1 août 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bakilana,Anne Margreth,Bundy,Donald A. P.,Brown,Jonathan C.,Fredriksen,Birger J.
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Can Africa reach the international targets for human development ? - An assessment of progress towards the targets of the 1998 Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD II) (anglais)
Sustainable economic development, and social progress in Africa will always be elusive, unless its people are educated, healthy, and secure enough to contribute to, and benefit from economic growth. In...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 23036 Date du document: 30 septembre 2001 Auteur: Carceles Breis,Gabriel,Fredriksen,Birger J.,Watt,Patrick John L.
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Scope for efficiency gains resulting from reduction in repetition and dropout : a simulation exercise (anglais)
This paper tries to shed light on the question: to what extent can the cost associated with investments in improvements in quality of learning outcomes be recuperated through efficiency gains derived from...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10502 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Auteur: Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio,Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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An introduction to the analysis of student enrollment and flows statistics (anglais)
The main purpose of this paper is to review : a) definitions, interpretations, data needs, and pitfalls in using enrollment ratios and student flow rates (intake, promotion, repetition, dropout and graduation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10538 Date du document: 30 juin 1991 Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Increasing foreign aid for primary education : the challenge for donors (anglais)
This paper discusses how donor assistance for education needs to change during the 1990s in order to effectively help developing countries reach the targets agreed upon for primary education. The most...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 10528 Date du document: 31 décembre 1990 Auteur: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department