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  • Education Finance Watch 2022 (English)

    The Education Finance Watch (EFW) is a collaborative effort between the World Bank (WB), the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, and the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS). The EFW aims to provide...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 185595 Document Date: October 31, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tanaka,Nobuyuki,Poulsen,Thomas,Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro,Vital,Marianne Joy Anacleto,Manos Antoninis,Murakami,Yuki,Marie Renée Andreescu,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi

  • The Adequacy of Public Expenditure on Education and the Needs Post-COVID-19 (English)

    Education needs to recover the space it lost in national budgets because of COVID-19. Many LICs and LMICs decreased the prioritization of education spending with the onset of COVID-19. Half of these countries...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 185590 Document Date: April 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Kheyfets,Igor,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,Dundar,Halil

  • Attaining the Learning Target : A Policy Package to Promote Literacy for All Children (English)

    Learning poverty is the measure of the number of children who cannot read and understand a simple story by age 10. Half of the world’s children experience learning poverty, failing to acquire foundational...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 162271 Document Date: July 30, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Crawford,Michael F.,Barron Rodriguez,Maria Rebeca,Ding,Elaine Yi Zhong,Gutierrez Bernal,Marcela,Saavedra,Jaime,Arias Diaz,Omar S.

  • Realizing the Future of Learning : From Learning Poverty to Learning for Everyone, Everywhere (English)

    Education is a right with immense inherent value. As an essential building block for a country’s human capital, it is also a key driver of growth, competitiveness, and economic development. For societies...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 154703 Document Date: December 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Saavedra,Jaime,Aedo Inostroza,Mario Cristian,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Pushparatnam,Adelle,Gutierrez Bernal,Marcela,Rogers,F. Halsey

  • Education Systems in Action : Transforming Data into Education Policy Implementation – SABER Annual Report 2019 (English)

    The SABER-UF was created in 2013 as a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) to enable partners and donors to enhance and extend the work done previously by the SABER program, which aimed to help countries strengthen...

    Document Type: Annual Report Report No.: 152563 Document Date: May 30, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Martinez,Mabel,Choi,Jung-Hwan,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Nayar,Reema,Rogers,F. Halsey,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Venegas Marin,Sergio,Levin,Victoria,Liberman,Julia,Luna Bazaldua,Diego Armando

  • Ending Learning Poverty : What Will It Take? (English)

    All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school—and conversely, an inability to read slams that gate shut. Beyond this, when children...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 142659 Document Date: October 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Crawford,Michael F.,Nayar,Reema,Rogers,F. Halsey,Barron Rodriguez,Maria Rebeca,Ding,Elaine Yi Zhong,Gutierrez Bernal,Marcela,Dixon,Annette,Saavedra,Jaime,Arias Diaz,Omar S.

  • Back to work : growing with jobs in Europe and Central Asia (Vol. 2 of 2) : Summary (Russian)

    Creating more and better jobs is perhaps the most critical challenge to boosting shared prosperity in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). This report examines the role of reforms, firms, skills, incentives...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 84041 Document Date: March 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Cancho,Cesar A.,Davalos,Maria Eugenia,Gruen,Carola A.,Saiovici,Gady,Sanchez,Carolina,Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,De Andrade Falcao,Natasha

  • Back to work : growing with jobs in Europe and Central Asia (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)

    Creating more and better jobs is perhaps the most critical challenge to boosting shared prosperity in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). This report examines the role of reforms, firms, skills, incentives...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 84041 Document Date: January 21, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Cancho,Cesar A.,Davalos,Maria Eugenia,Gruen,Carola A.,Saiovici,Gady,Sanchez,Carolina,Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,De Andrade Falcao,Natasha

  • Back to work : growing with jobs in Europe and Central Asia (Vol. 2 of 2) : Rezime (Serbian)

    Creating more and better jobs is perhaps the most critical challenge to boosting shared prosperity in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). This report examines the role of reforms, firms, skills, incentives...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 84041 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Cancho,Cesar A.,Davalos,Maria Eugenia,Gruen,Carola A.,Saiovici,Gady,Sanchez,Carolina,Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,De Andrade Falcao,Natasha

  • Europe 2020 Romania : evidence-based policies for productivity, employment, and skills enhancement (English)

    Employment and skills are at the core of Europe 2020, the European Union's (EU) competitiveness strategy, and are decisive for high productivity and sustained growth. Romania has overcome significant challenges...

    Document Type: Other Poverty Study Report No.: ACS4924 Document Date: July 29, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arnhold,Nina,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Pauna,Catalin,Moarcas,Mariana Doina,De Laat,Joost,Florescu,Richard,Cahu,Paul Marie Michel

  • Informality : exit and exclusion : Informalidad : escape y exclusion (Spanish)

    Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40008 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Fajnzylber,Pablo,Maloney,William F.,Mason,Andrew D.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Saavedra,Jaime