Category Archives: PISA

Education systems are simply not performing as needed; not as economies demand, and not as parents desire. Yet it’s important to celebrate and recognize the success of counties that have made significant advances. Photo: Sofie Tesson / Taimani Films / World Bank   Every sector is reforming to meet the changing demands of the globalContinue reading “Education and economic development: Five reforms that have worked”

Jakarta Basic Education Conference 2017: Shared Principles for an Equitable and Excellent Basic Education System | March 21-23, 2017 | Jakarta, Indonesia HarryPatrinos_presentation6

  Improving Vocational Education Brings Opportunities for Young People in Yunnan Yunnan Province, on China’s southwestern border, is well known for its beautiful natural landscape and rich ethnic culture. Yet it is also one of the country’s poorest provinces. Its per capita GDP in 2010 was only half of the national average.. . Yunnan Technical andContinue reading “News and Research 35”

Special study on benchmarking the quality of project economic analysis for the South Asia Region This paper benchmarks the quality of project economic analysis in South Asia against other World Bank regions, using data on project exits between 1975 and 2015. The results show that the South Asia region performs on par with the otherContinue reading “News and Research 34”

Investing in the Early Years and Early Reading  Since it is a person’s education that determines whether she will be extremely or only moderately exposed to the economic and social risks in times of crisis, and since education is a cumulative process (that is, you need early education foundations before you receive primary schooling, primary beforeContinue reading “News and Research 31”

Why Attract Good Teachers  The most widespread losses and abuses in education systems occur on the front lines—teachers who are absent from their posts or who demand illegal pay…[more] Skilled workforce and strong R&D keys to Thailand 4.0 success  Several of the government’s recent economic initiatives have the potential to kick-start Thailand’s economy. To achieveContinue reading “News and Research 30”

Assessing Basic Education Service Delivery in the Philippines A World Bank study assesses the quality of basic education services and the strength of existing systems used to allocate and manage public education resources…The main findings and policy suggestions of the study are presented as a series of policy notes on specific issues as well asContinue reading “News and Research 28”

  Pedagogy versus school readiness: the impact of a randomized reading instruction intervention and community-based playgroup intervention on early grade reading outcomes in Tonga  Identifying cost-effective interventions to improve early literacy is vital to developing countries, given the importance of early literacy for an individual’s future education outcomes and subsequent human capital formation. This paperContinue reading “News and Research 27”

Education’s Role in Catalyzing Economic Development and Growth Despite the productivity slowdown in countries such as the United States, education remains one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and for laying the basis for sustained economic growth. Recent evidence points to the need to make sure that the increasingly schooled populationContinue reading “Education’s Role in Catalyzing Economic Development and Growth”