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  • Financing vocational training in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

    This study describes the emerging consensus about training finance largely on the basis of experiences in Latin America and Asia. The paper tests this consensus against findings from Sub-Saharan Africa...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 26523 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ziderman,Adrian

  • The World Bank Research Observer 8 (1) (English)

    This issue contains: The economics of malaria control; Feeding Latin America's children; The demand for water in rural areas: determinants and policy implications; Student loans: an effective instrument...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17522 Document Date: January 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Musgrove,Philip A.,The World Bank Water Demand Research Team,Albrecht,Douglas L.,Ziderman,Adrian,Claessens, Stijn

  • Student loans : an effective instrument for cost recovery in higher education? (English)

    Governments and universities have trouble reconciling the goal of keeping higher education widely accessible with the need to retrieve some of its costs from students. Student loans offer a plausible solution...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 14287 Document Date: January 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Albrecht, Douglas,Ziderman,Adrian

  • Vocational and technical education and training (English)

    Developing countries need to improve productivity throughout the economy if they are to compete successfully in an era of rapid economic and technological change. This requires not only capital investment...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 9679 Document Date: May 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Middleton,John Nicholas,Ziderman,Adrian,Adams,Arvil Van

  • Vocational secondary schooling in Israel : a study of labor market outcomes (English)

    This paper examines the efficacy of vocational school education in relation to that of the academic secondary school; the focus is on non-postsecondary school attenders. Given the relatively small fraction...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS142 Document Date: January 31, 1989 Disclosure Status: Author: Ziderman,Adrian

  • Payroll taxes for financing training in developing countries (English)

    In most developing countries, the major programs of vocational training and manpower-skill development are financed from general revenues. Increasingly, however, earmarked payroll taxes are employed to...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS141 Document Date: January 31, 1989 Disclosure Status: Author: Ziderman,Adrian

  • Social rates of return to manpower training programs : the policy context (English)

    The central message of this paper is, that measured rates of return to manpower training programs should not be regarded solely as a device for determining the redirection of investments in the training...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 8558 Document Date: November 30, 1988 Disclosure Status: Author: Ziderman,Adrian

  • Israel's vocational training (English)

    Eighty percent of the trainees headed for Israel's labor force go to full-time vocational secondary schools that devote a third to a half of the curriculum time to general studies. Students tend to come...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS25 Document Date: July 31, 1988 Disclosure Status: Author: Ziderman,Adrian