Documents & Reports
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Uganda - The efficiency of public education in Uganda (English)
This is a study of the efficiency of Uganda’s public education system. Since this type of study is relatively new for Ugandan education, the study begins by defining the basic concepts, terminology, and...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70388 Document Date: March 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Winkler,Donald R.,Sondergaard,Lars M.
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Building state capacity in Africa - new approaches, emerging lessons (English)
In recent years, a number of African governments, sometimes working in partnership with the Bank, and other development partners, have moved forward with new-style programs to build public sector capacity...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30263 Document Date: September 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Adamolekun, Ladipo,Barkan,Joel,Dorotinsky, Bill,Engberg-Pedersen,Poul,Floyd,Robert L.,Garnett,Harry C.,Gershberg,Alec Ian,Kiragu,Kithinji,Laleye, Mouflataou,Levy,Brian David,Kpundeh, Sahr [editors],Morin,Denyse E.,Mukandala,Rwekaza,Ndegwa,Stephen N.,Ng'Ethe,Njuguna,Olowu, Dele,Plowden,William J. L.,Stevens, Mike,Winkler,Donald R.,Zhou,Yongmei,Teggemann,Stefanie
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Education decentralization in Latin America : the effects on the quality of schooling (English)
The two types of education decentralization--to lower levels of government and to individual schools--have very different origins and aims. The decentralization of education to lower levels of government...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 21494 Document Date: June 30, 2000 Author: Winkler,Donald R.,Gershberg,Alec Ian
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Beyond the center - decentralizing the State (English)
The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.
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Beyond the center - decentralizing the State : Mas alla del centro - la descentralizacion del estado (Spanish)
The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.
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Descentralizacion de la educacion : participacion en el manejo de las escuelas al nivel local (Spanish)
The study explores the subject of public education management, currently under radical changes in both industrial, and developing countries, and focuses in particular, on the changes in Latin America and...
Document Type: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper Series Report No.: 18826 Document Date: May 31, 1997 Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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The design and administration of intergovernmental transfers : fiscal decentralization in Latin America (English)
This document examines the design and adminstration of intergovernmental transfers in recent decentralized governments. Even in decentralized systems, central government structures have permanent objectives...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP235 Document Date: July 31, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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Higher education in Latin America : issues of efficiency and equity : La educacion superior en America Latina : cuestiones sobre eficiencia y equidad (Spanish)
Enrollments in Latin American universities increased tenfold in the past two decades. Government spending, however, has not kept pace with enrollment demand. Increased higher educationn enrollments have...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP77 Document Date: July 1, 1994 Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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The design and administration of intergovernmental transfers : fiscal decentralization in Latin America : Diseno y administracion de transferencias intergubernamentales : descentralizacion fiscal en America Latina (Spanish)
This document examines the design and adminstration of intergovernmental transfers in recent decentralized governments. Even in decentralized systems, central government structures have permanent objectives...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP235 Document Date: June 1, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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Municipal and private sector response to decentralization and school choice (English)
A large number of developing nations are in the process of decentralizing basic education with the aim of diversifying revenue sources and introducing greater accountability and efficiency. This paper...
Document Type: Human Capital Working Paper Report No.: 12240 Document Date: August 31, 1993 Author: Winkler,Donald R.,Rounds, Taryn
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The design and administration of intergovernmental transfers (English)
More and more countries in Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC) are either implementing or planning decentralized arrangements. An important characteristic of decentralized government is a system of...
Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 18150 Document Date: July 31, 1993 Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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Higher education in Latin America : issues of efficiency and equity (English)
Enrollments in Latin American universities increased tenfold in the past two decades. Government spending, however, has not kept pace with enrollment demand. Increased higher educationn enrollments have...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP77 Document Date: March 31, 1990 Author: Winkler,Donald R.
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Decentralization in education : an economic perspective (English)
Evaluating decentralization in terms of three economic criteria - social efficiency, technical efficiency, and equity - the paper argues that some decisionmaking (about finance and teacher recruitment)...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS143 Document Date: March 31, 1989 Author: Winkler,Donald R.