Documents et rapports

Perceptions of Economic Mobility and Support for Education Reforms (anglais)

This paper investigates the relationship between the expectations of economic mobility and support for tax-financed education reforms using data from the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 39 countries...

Colombia - Completion and Learning Review Validation for the Country Partnership Framework for the Period FY16-FY21 : IEG Review (anglais)

This review of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Completion and Learning Review (CLR) covers the period of the FY16-FY21 Colombia Country Partnership Framework (CPF) and its adjustments at the FY19 Performance...

World Bank Education Overview : Education in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence Contexts (anglais)

Countries need strong education systems that promote learning, life skills, and social cohesion. However, systems struggle to deliver education services in adverse contexts such as armed conflict, natural...

Improving learning outcomes in South Asia : findings from a decade of impact evaluations (anglais)

There have been various initiatives to improve learning outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and synthesize...

Improving education outcomes in South Asia : findings from a decade of impact evaluations (anglais)

There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and synthesize...

Study of social public spending and intitutions in El Salvador : education, health, social protection and employment (espagnol)

This report on the Study of social public spending and institutions in El Salvador: education, health, social protection and employment claims that development of El Salvador in the last decade has been...

Afghanistan - Achieving education results in a difficult environment (anglais)

The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), World Bank, and their partners in Afghanistan worked together on an education project that has increased enrollment, especially for girls, as well as trained...

Panama - Social Protection Project : restructuring (Vol. 2 of 2) : Data sheet (anglais)

The development objectives of the Social Protection Project of Panama are to: (1) improve the management and operation of the conditional cash transfer program to enhance its effectiveness in reaching...

Crossing boundaries : gender, caste and schooling in rural Pakistan (anglais)

Can communal heterogeneity explain persistent educational inequities in developing countries? The paper uses a novel data-set from rural Pakistan that explicitly recognizes the geographic structure of...

Honduras - Social Investment Fund benefits two and a half million people : Honduras - Fondo de Inversión Social beneficia a 2,5 milliones de personas (espagnol)

Upper Egypt - Development of social capital and infrastructure construction : Haute-Égypte - Construction d'infrastructures et élaboration d'un capital social (français)

The growing phenomenon of private tutoring : does it deepen human capital, widen inequalities, or waste resources? (anglais)

Does private tutoring increase parental choice and improve student achievement, or does it exacerbate social inequalities and impose heavy costs on households, possibly without improving student outcomes?...

If you build it, will they come? School availability and school enrollment in 21 poor countries (anglais)

Increasing the supply of schools is commonly advocated as a policy intervention to promote schooling. Analysis of the relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to...

Impact of cost sharing on education reform of secondary education (ROSE II) (anglais)

This study has two objectives. The first is to analyze the current cost-sharing scheme in Jamaica, in terms of the amount of funds collected from students and the use of the funds, the impact of the scheme...

Tanzania - Community education (anglais)

"Mfuko wa Elimu Msingi" - or the Community Education Fund (CEF) - was started in 1995. It was extended as one of the two key components under the Human Resources Development Project (HRDP) launched in...

School enrollment decline in sub-Saharan Africa : beyond the supply constraint (anglais)

This paper examines the likely causes for deteriorating enrollment rates in Africa. While a causal link is difficult to establish, several studies suggest that declining incomes and employment opportunities...

The business of education - a look at Kenya's private education sector (anglais)

This case study surveys the educational services provided by the private sector in Kenya, identifies the major issues, and discusses a possible role for the World Bank Group, particularly the IFC. The...

Schooling and cognitive achievements of children in Morocco : can the government improve outcomes? (anglais)

Although education plays an important role in economic development, many low income countries are failing to develop their education systems fast enough to reap the benefits of an educated workforce. In...

The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (anglais)

This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...

The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (anglais)

This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...