Education, economics and public policy

  Tonga PEARL Music Video produced for public awareness.  Titled “Read with Your Child for At Least 10 Minutes a Day” it will air on national television starting Monday. This is one of the various ways we are working with the Ministry of Education in Tonga to promote school readiness and early childhood development underContinue reading “News and Research 40: Netherlands & Finland at Top of World in Life Satisfaction for Students”

The impact of an accountability intervention with diagnostic feedback Evidence from Mexico The Mexican state of Colima implemented a low-stakes accountability intervention with diagnostic feedback among schools with the lowest test scores in the national assessment. A difference-in-difference and a regression discontinuity design are used to identify the effects of the intervention on learning outcomes.Continue reading “News and Research 39: The impact of an accountability intervention with diagnostic feedback”

The Netherlands: Top-Performing School System Looking to Get Better  We got interested in the Netherlands when the first results came out for the 1995 administration of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS), the largest international comparative study of student achievement done up to that date. The Netherlands and Flemish Belgium were among theContinue reading “News and Research 38: The Netherlands: Top-Performing School System”

We just wrapped up a successful, Shared Principles for an Equitable and Excellent Education System, conference in Jakarta. The event was attended by more than 190 guests, including distinguished experts, several ministers, and many members of our own staff. The twitter conversation – which was trending on the first day of the conference #BasicEd – continues

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”