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  • Youth employment and skills development in the Gambia (English)

    Despite substantial improvements in access to basic education and steady economic growth, The Gambia still faces considerable challenges in respect to reducing poverty. As the result of its narrow economic...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 63845 Document Date: July 8, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lahire,Nathalie,Johanson,Richard K.,Wilcox, Ryoko Tomita

  • A review of national training funds (English)

    This review identifies over sixty countries that have or had pre-employment and enterprise training funds. The characteristics, advantages, and limitations of each are presented as well as key design questions...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 52187 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Johanson,Richard K.

  • Skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

    The review addresses a list of questions that seem especially pertinent for skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa today, namely: What should be the role of training when there is not enough modern sector...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 28820 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Johanson,Richard K.,Arvil V. Adams

  • Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA): regional response Bank TVET policy in the 1990s (English)

    This review covers 24 projects started or completed in the 1990s in SSA that include assistance for technical- vocational education and training (TVET). The review of Bank experience with TVET projects...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 31509 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Author: Johanson,Richard K.

  • Education and health in Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of sector-wide approaches (English)

    Dissatisfaction with traditional project approaches and a recognition of the limitations of the sector adjustment programs led to the development of new lending instruments to improve the impact of development...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 21905 Document Date: January 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Johanson,Richard K.,Mattimore,Angel Leann,Adams,Arvil Van,Bach-Baouab,Anwar,Bellew,Rosemary T.,Berk,David W.,Burnett,Nicholas R.,Decaillet,Francois,Dove,Linda Ankrah,Frediksen, Birger,Hamilton,Donald B.,Jones, Bruce,Mclaughlin,Julie,Murphy, Paud,Orbach,Eliezer,Panenborg, O. K.,Prouty,Robert S.,Tan,Jee-Peng,Weissman, Steve

  • Technical and vocational education and training in Russia (English)

    The rapid pace of privatization in Russia, provided the background for some changes in technological restructuring, along with some form of capital innovation, and/or work reorganization being introduced...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 19772 Document Date: October 31, 1998 Disclosure Status: Author: Dar,Amit,Gill,Indermit S.,Johanson,Richard K.

  • Review of World Bank lending operations in education and training : fiscal 1984-85 (English)

    This review covers all education sector reports, appraisal and completion reports issued in fiscal 1984-85. Among the important findings are the following. Sector work needs to be strengthened in education...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: EDT28 Document Date: June 30, 1986 Disclosure Status: Author: Johanson,Richard K.,Haddad,Wadi D,Hultin,Mats G.,EDT

  • Sector lending in education (English)

    This review evaluates the processing and benefits of seven sector loans in education. These sector loans differ from conventional loans by the extent to which they: (1) focus on policy and institutional...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: EDT18 Document Date: December 31, 1985 Disclosure Status: Author: Johanson,Richard K.