Education, economics and public policy

Education Financing for Ukraine (News and Research 283) World Bank Announces Additional $200 Million in Financing for Ukraine | Financing will support essential social services; combined total of World Bank-mobilized support for Ukraine now stands at more than $925 million | The World Bank announced nearly $200 million in additional and reprogrammed financing to bolster Ukraine’sContinue reading “Education Financing for Ukraine”

Protecting Education (News and Research 282) World Bank Mobilizes an Emergency Financing Package of over $700 million for Ukraine| The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a supplemental budget support package for Ukraine, called Financing of Recovery from Economic Emergency in Ukraine – or FREE Ukraine – for $489 million. The package approvedContinue reading “Protecting Education”

Learning Recovery after COVID-19 (News and Research 280) Learning Recovery after COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia: Policy and Practice| This brief highlights the key aspects of the World Bank’s ECA learning recovery plan that should be prioritized given the current situation in the region. The plan consists of three stages: (i) coping with theContinue reading “Learning Recovery after COVID-19”

The Global Learning Crisis (News and Research 279) Mapping the Global Learning Crisis | Despite record enrollments in school worldwide, learning is limited More young children are enrolled in primary school today than any other time in history. Yet achievement data shows that student learning has remained nearly flat over the last two decades inContinue reading “The Global Learning Crisis”

Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery (News and Research 278) Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery in Low-Income Countries | IMF Working Paper No. 2022/025 | A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated to reflect the structural characteristics of vulnerable low-income countries and to replicate key dimensions of the Covid-19 shock. The paper shows that absent significant andContinue reading “Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery”

The COVID-19 Slide in Education: Global Data on Learning Loss (News and Research 277) COVID-19 caused significant disruption to the global education system. Early reviews of the first wave of lockdowns and school closures suggested significant learning loss in several countries. Most studies observe increases in inequality where certain demographics of students experienced learning lossesContinue reading “The COVID-19 Slide in Education: Global Data on Learning Loss”

Alina Sava’s intervention on the Digi24 TV news channel in Romania speaks about the Early Warning Mechanism, the Learning Plan, and how important it is to measure learning loss. Watch here. The COVID-19 slide in education: new data on learning loss (News and Research 275) COVID-19 led to school closures throughout Europe. Early evidence isContinue reading “The COVID-19 slide in education: new data on learning loss”