Documents & Reports
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Paying for performance : an analysis of output-based aid in education (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 103572 Document Date: February 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)
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...
Report No.: 96468 Document Date: May 13, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (French)
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...
Report No.: 96468 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (Spanish)
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...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 43968 Document Date: November 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Goh, Chor Boon,,Lee, Sing-Kong,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Sustaining educational and economic momentum in Africa (English)
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...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 54444 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 47202 Document Date: November 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fredriksen,Birger J.
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An African exploration of the East Asian education experience (English)
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...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 43967 Document Date: April 29, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)
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...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 54304 Document Date: April 29, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Tan,Jee-Peng
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Toward a better future : education and training for economic development in Singapore since 1965 (English)
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...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 43968 Document Date: April 18, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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 (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 34047 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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) (English)
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...
Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 23036 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Author: 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 (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 10502 Document Date: June 30, 1992 Author: 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 (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 10538 Document Date: June 30, 1991 Author: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department
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Increasing foreign aid for primary education : the challenge for donors (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 10528 Document Date: December 31, 1990 Author: Fredriksen,Birger J.,Population and Human Resources Department