With development needs outstripping
public sector capacity, private sector finance and expertise
are becoming increasingly important. OBA and public-private
partnerships...
The Vietnamese government has made
remarkable gains in improving education outcomes since the
early 1990s. But disparities in educational attainment –
particularly between...
OBA and other innovative forms of
results-based financing (RBF) are still relatively new to
the education sector, but emerging evidence suggests that
OBA/RBF may be...
The World Bank Group’s Systems Approach
for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative produces
data on education system policies and institutions, analyzes
and evaluates...
Following steep declines in poverty
rates over the past decade, the Latin America and Caribbean
(LAC) region reduced childhood poverty by a third and
childhood extreme...
Type: BriefReport#: 106573Date: June 1, 2016Author:
Lucchetti,Leonardo Ramiro ;
Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso ;
Monsalve,Emma ;
Reyes,German Jeremias ;
Sousa,Liliana Do Couto ;
Viveros,Martha
This note focuses on the way in which
the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
conditionalcash transfer (CCT) program and the national
household targeting system...
Type: BriefReport#: 119393Date: June 1, 2016Author:
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan
In Ghana, where electricity grid access
is relatively high for Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of
people in small rural communities or on isolated islands
cannot be reached...
This note attempts to identify the
factors associated with differences in overall school
performance and efficiency. It draws on data from the
Philippines Public Education...
The World Bank Group’s Systems Approach
for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative produces
data on education system policies and institutions, analyzes
and evaluates...
This brief relates to the Country
partnership framework for the period FY16-20. Over the last
decade, Uzbekistan’s economy has grown steadily
and has made good...
Type: BriefReport#: 180925Date: May 31, 2016Author:
World Bank
Around twenty-five percent of the sixty
million forcibly displaced people across the globe are in
Africa, where some countries have hosted large refugee
populations...
For too long, there has been a dearth of
literature and guidance on policy and practice in
public-private partnership (PPP) disclosure and a wide gap
in understanding...
The state of urban travel in many
developing countries is grim. Congestion and low-quality
infrastructure - including limited network coverage and poor
roads and sidewalks...
Georgia is upgrading its principal
highway, running for more than 350 kilometers between the
Black Sea on its western border and Azerbaijan in the east,
at a cost of...
There is uneven progress across social
groups in Uttar Pradesh. The poverty rate for scheduled
castes in Uttar Pradesh is amongst the highest in the
country. There are...
Women and girls in Rajasthan face
persistent barriers to progress. The child sex ratio is
amongthe lowest in India, and is declining. Maternal
mortality is high, but...
There is uneven progress across social
groups in Madhya Pradesh. Scheduled tribes and scheduled
castes in particular have very high poverty levels. In
addition, they...
Madhya Pradesh has made mixed progress
on gender. Child sex ratio is deteriorating. Maternal
mortality is high, but has seen improvement. Nearly one in
every two adult...
This report presents tabular data on:
population; poverty and inequality; income and growth; jobs;
health; education; infrastructure and amenities; and recent
growth...
This report presents tabular data on:
population; poverty and inequality; income and growth; jobs;
health; education; infrastructure and amenities; and recent
growth...
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