Screen LibraryWorld Bank financing of education：lending, learning and development
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 289 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415404762 (hardback) 9780415404761 (hardback) 9780415567077 (pbk.) 0415567076 (pbk.) 9780203965931 (ebk.) 0203965930 (ebk.) |
| Index Number: | G513 |
| CLC: | G513 |
| Call Number: | G513/J786/2nd.ed. |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-278) and index. Cover -- World Bank Financing of Education -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface to the first edition -- The World Bank and education -- Researching the World Bank -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on text -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Bank at work -- Bank purposes, structure, and style -- Bank activities in retrospect -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Getting started in education 1960-3 -- Options for educational financing -- Taking decisions on education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Early project experience in education 1963-8 -- Establishing a project cycle in education -- UNESCO-World Bank Co-operative Program -- Initial project and policy issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Education in the McNamara years 1968-80 -- Policy, conceptual, and organizational changes -- A poverty focus in education - fact or fiction? -- Education project experience under McNamara -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 From development to reform -- Policy assessments in education -- 1980 Education Sector Policy Paper -- Adjusting to debt and recession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The triumph of educational fundamentalism 1986-95 -- Alternative policies for financing education -- The research-policy nexus -- The basics of policy reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz -- Reclaiming legitimacy -- Education in the Wolfensohn Bank -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 World Bank priorities for educational financing -- Understanding Bank constructions of policy -- Bank stances on educational priorities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |