While noting the benefits of strong
public sector involvement in Korea's educational
system, e.g., equal access, common standards, this paper
draws attention to one...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22648Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Jisoon Lee
The study focuses on secondary education
issues, particularly the supply, and demand factors
affecting student attainment, and performance. It explores
the main challenges...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24555Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Larach,Linda
The paper outlines a strategy for
enhancing poverty reduction in the low-income countries of
Africa by reducing the vulnerability of the poor and helping
them to manage...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21961Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Haque, Trina
The report focuses on the challenging
labor market environment in the Middle East and North Africa
region, characterized by overstaffing in the public sector,
and exacerbated...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21592Date: December 31, 2000Author:
Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth
The study focuses on the potential
environmental impacts of the socioeconomic crisis in the
mining sector in Indonesia, summarized from two
complementary studies: an...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21438Date: November 30, 2000Author:
McMahon, Gary ;
Rasdiani Subdibjo, Elly ;
Aden, Jean ;
Bouzaher, Aziz ;
Dore, Giovanna ;
Kunanayagam, Romanie
School self-evaluation lays the
groundwork and opens doors to self-driven school
improvement. This booklet provides insights in to school
self-evaluation and offers...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21626Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Riley, Kathryn ;
MacBeath, John
This report summarizes the key
developments to date from the program "Effective
Schooling in Rural Africa", which focuses on quality
improvement. The report explains...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21635Date: August 31, 2000
This report summarizes the discussions
from the "Forum on Poverty, Inequality, and
Vulnerability," organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
on October 19-20, 1998, by the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19682Date: July 31, 2000
The notes in this report are designed to
highlight the broad range of issues that need to be
considered with regard to decentralization. They are
intended to provide...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19683Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Ahmad, Junaid ;
Blair, Harry ;
Esmail, Talib ;
Ford, James ;
Hofman, Bert ;
Kerr, Graham ;
King, Elizabeth ;
Kolehmainem-Aitkin, Riita-Liisa ;
Lutz, Ernst ;
McLean, Keith ;
Rondinelli, Dennis ;
Sewell,David ;
Shah, Anwar ;
De Tommaso, Giulio ;
Wiest, Dana ;
Litvack, Jennie [editor] ;
Seddon, Jessica [editor]
In 1999, the World Bank Institute
launched a major learning program for Bank client countries
and Bank staff on population, reproductive health, and
health sector reform....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21026Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Krasovec, Katherine ;
Shaw, R. Paul
Along with the dismantling of the
command economy inherited from forty years of the dominance
of the Soviet Union, another dramatic changes taking place
in Central Europe...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21025Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Ebel, Robert ;
Varfalavi, Istvan ;
Varga, Sandor
This is the second report published for
the "Effective Schooling in Rural Africa" program.
This report surveys the key issues concerning school
effectiveness and improvement....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21636Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Saunders,Lesley Susan
Shubra el-Kheima has been one of the
fastest growing cities in Egypt, where the textile, and
garment industry played an important role in generating this
growth. The...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 26036Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Bulbul, Lamia; Neguib, Sameh;
This paper records the involuntary
resettlement experience associated with the construction of
the Shuikou Dam and Reservoir Project in Fujian Province,
financed by...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21248Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Youxuan Zhu ;
ter Woort, Martin ;
Trembath, Barry
Biodiversity was placed firmly on the
international agenda when the Convention on Biological
Diversity was opened for signature at the 1992 UNEP Earth
Summit in Rio...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24579Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Environmental Resources Management (UK) Ltd
This paper considers experience with
micro-finance institutions, and community-based
organizations, but is mainly focused on Producer
Organizations (Pos) - defined as...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22306Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Delion, Jean
This note outlines an approach to
economic analysis in agricultural research and extension
(R&E) projects financed under World Bank loans and
credits. It provides guidelines...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20881Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Alex,Gary E. ;
Byerlee,Derek R. ;
Horstkotte-Wesseler,Gesa ;
Maredia,Mywish Karimbhai
The report presents the issues discussed
at a workshop intended to identify strategies for
agricultural education, seek agreement on how to strengthen
future agricultural...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20910Date: January 31, 2000
This report compares the history of
Environmental Assessment (EA) and Social Assessment (SA) in
the World Bank, in order to draw "lessons learned"
to improve development....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20977Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Goodland, Robert
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