Documentos e informes
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Paying for performance : an analysis of output-based aid in education (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 103572 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Número del informe: 96468 Fecha del documento: 13 de mayo de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Francés)
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...
Número del informe: 96468 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Español)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 43968 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Goh, Chor Boon,,Lee, Sing-Kong,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Sustaining educational and economic momentum in Africa (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 54444 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 47202 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fredriksen,Birger J.
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An African exploration of the East Asian education experience (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 43967 Fecha del documento: 29 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 54304 Fecha del documento: 29 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Toward a better future : education and training for economic development in Singapore since 1965 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 43968 Fecha del documento: 18 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 34047 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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) (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo departamental Número del informe: 23036 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 2001 Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 10502 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1992 Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 10538 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1991 Autor: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Increasing foreign aid for primary education : the challenge for donors (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 10528 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1990 Autor: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department