World Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and DevelopmentBased on detailed analysis of thousands of confidential World Bank documents, this book demonstrates that the World Bank lies at the centre of the major changes in global education of our time. It outlines the evolution of World Bank lending policies in education, and assesses the policy impact of the Bank's educational projects, looking at how it has:
Following on from the success of the first edition, this revised edition covers topical issues of globalisation and looks into the political debate concerning aid to developing countries. It will be of enormous value to those studying, or working in, educational policy in developing countries, international organisations and financial institutions, and aid agencies. |
Contents
legacies from the 1940s and 1950s | 1 |
2 Getting started in education 19603 | 29 |
3 Early project experience in education 19638 | 52 |
4 Education in the McNamara years 196880 | 78 |
education policies in the 1980s | 124 |
6 The triumph of educational fundamentalism 198695 | 159 |
7 From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz | 196 |
8 World Bank priorities for educational financing | 242 |
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achieve Africa agencies Aklilu analysis approach Ballantine Bank education financing Bank education policy Bank lending Bank operations Bank policy Bank projects Bank staff Bank’s basic education borrowing countries capacity capital cation commitment concerns cost-benefit analysis developing countries Diez Hochleitner economic educa education lending education projects education systems educational development effect emphasis equity Eugene Black evaluation Executive Directors expansion external focus formal funds global growth higher education IBRD impact implementation increasing influence institutional investment issues lending operations literacy major McNamara Millennium Development Goals neoliberal ofits Operations Evaluation Department overall percent policy paper political poverty PPAR President primary education priorities project identification Psacharopoulos reflected reform regional role secondary education secondary school significance social staffers strategy sub-Saharan Africa subsector technical assistance Theodore Schultz tion UNESCO United Nations vocational Wadi Haddad Wolfensohn World Bank education