Seminar “World Development Report 2018: LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise”

The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to place their learning at the center. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: 1) education’s promise; 2) the need to shine a light on learning; 3) how to make schools work for learners; and 4) how to make systems work for learning. At this seminar, WDR 2018 Co-Directors Dion Filmer and Halsey Rogers will introduced the main findings of the report.

Program

Opening Remarks

Masato Miyazaki
Special Representative, Japan, World Bank Group

Tetsushi Sonobe
Vice President, GRIPS

Keynote Speech

Dion Filmer and Halsey Rogers
Co-Directors, WDR 2018, World Bank Group

Presentation Material: LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise (PDF)

Comments

Kazuhiro Yoshida
Hiroshima University

Presentation Material: Seminar on WDR 2018 - LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise (PDF)

Eiji Kozuka
Director, Basic Education II, Human Development Department, JICA and Senior Research Fellow, JICA Research Institute

Presentation Material: Comments on World Development Report 2018 LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise (PDF)

Q&A

Closing Remarks

Nobuko Kayashima
Director, JICA Research Institute