The paper challenges the production
function model of educational evaluation and proposes a new
paradigm reflecting the lessons of experience and enriched
by the new...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16130Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Picciotto,Robert
The purpose of this report is to bring
to the surface some of the worst aspects of human capital
underdevelopment, by disaggregating to the extent possible
the relevant...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16129Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Psacharopoulos, George
The benefits of compensatory bilingual
education for a disadvantaged, poor indigenous population as
an investment in human capital is significant. Students of
bilingual...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16028Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Patrinos, Harry Anthony ;
Velez, Eduardo
This paper reports new estimates of the
social returns to education, using countries' economic
performance during 1960-85 to capture the externalities from
education....
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16131Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Mingat, Alain ;
Jee-Peng Tan
Relatively little is known about the
determinants and consequences of dominant language fluency
among linguistic minorities. This paper presents the
development of...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16035Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Chiswick, Barry R.
This paper quantifies both the direct
and opportunity costs of primary and secondary schooling,
using data from Tanzania. It attempts to clarify how
important opportunity...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16020Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Mason, Andrew D. ;
Khandker, Shahidur R.
The paper examines the contribution of
agricultural growth to poverty reduction in Pakistan. Total
growth in agriculture in Pakistan has been impressive.
However, growth...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16033Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Faruqee, Rashid ;
Carey, Kevin
Funds for investment (or recurrent
expenditure) should often be pre-allocated among competing
entities - territorial units, sub-national governments or
others-to give...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16032Date: August 31, 1996Author:
Musgrove, Philip
The 1993 World Development Report (WDR),
Investing in Health, used the Disability Adjusted Life Year
(DALY) to measure the state of health of a population and,
together...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16128Date: July 31, 1996Author:
Homedes,Nuria
This paper identifies factors important
for successful operational collaboration between NGOs and
the World Bank. It is now vital to examine the experience
with collaboration...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16039Date: June 30, 1996Author:
Toshiko Hino
This report examines the voucher program
created in 1991 for secondary schools. It analyzes the
implementation of this system of demand subsidies, focusing
on the following...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16232Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Calderon Z., Alberto
This paper takes a fresh look at the
rationale for state-financed training by going through the
classic reasons for government intervention. The author
notes an unwarranted...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 15502Date: March 31, 1996Author:
Zabalza, Antonio
A tax funded voucher system exists when
governments make payments to families that enable their
children to enter public or private schools of their choice.
The payments...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 15365Date: February 29, 1996Author:
West, Edwin G.
This paper reviews the basic concept of
the profitability of investment in education and enumerates
the various techniques that have been used in the literature
to estimate...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 15280Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Psacharopoulos, George
Interactive technology facilitates modes
of processing and/or sharing of information which until
recently were unachievable. The expanded potential of the
new machines...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 15051Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Crawford, Michael ;
Eisemon, Thomas ;
Holm-Nielsen Lauritz
Since today's prosperous nations
were once "developing" countries, it is useful to
compare their historical circumstance with those of current
developing countries....
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 15050Date: September 30, 1995Author:
West, Edwin G.
This paper describes the goals,
achievements, and setbacks of an ambitious educational
reform attempted in Colombia in 1991. More specifically, it
takes up three related...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14964Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Montenegro,Armando
As with other sectors, imbalances
between demand and supply can occur in the market for health
services. But there are also needs for these services,
leading to two...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14014Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Musgrove,Philip A.
This report reviews the programs
implemented in selected countries to protect the poor during
normal times and during transition or adjustment. In
particular, two questions...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 16233Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Subbarao, K. ;
Braithwaite, Jeanine ;
Jalan, Jyotsna
When the Bank began to re-establish
formal relations with South Africa around 1990, its image in
the country was very negative. Politicians, academics and
even some...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14881Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Cofino, Roberto Gonzales
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