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SABER Teachers Pakistan (Punjab) Country Report 2018

Evidence on the impacts of many teacher policies remains insufficient and scattered, and the impact of many reforms depends on specific design features. In addition, teacher policies can have very...
Region/Country: Pakistan Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER Tertiary Education Pakistan Country Report 2017

SABER-Tertiary Education is a diagnostic tool to assess how education systems perform and to identify priorities for reforms at the national level. It is part of the World Bank’s Systems Approach for...
Region/Country: Pakistan Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER in Action - Guinea - Bissau

"A coastal country in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau has a population of approximately 1.8 million, with annual population growth of around 2.4 percent (2015). Its population is very young: 41 percent...
Region/Country: Guinea-Bissau Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER in Action - Cabo Verde

"Cabo Verde is a lower-middle-income country consisting of 10 islands located off the coast of West Africa. Approximately 88 percent of its population (0.5 million) lives on four of the 10 islands....
Region/Country: Cabo Verde Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER Education Management Information Systems Haiti Country Report 2017

The systems approach for better education results (SABER) is an established tool designed to support countries in systematically examining and strengthening the performance of their education systems...
Region/Country: Haiti Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER School Finance Haiti Country Report 2017

Policy goals reflect actionable ways that school finance systems can follow three well-known foundational concepts in school finance: adequacy, equity, and efficiency. Progress toward each of these...
Region/Country: Haiti Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

SABER Annual Report 2018 (Retrospective Review) - Building education systems that deliver

It has been nearly seven years since the inception of the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results, better known as SABER. What began as a set of tools for policy analysis has grown...
Region/Country: WLD Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2018

Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure : An International Benchmarking Exercise

Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on...
Region/Country: WLD Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2018

Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the...
Region/Country: WLD Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2018

Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program

Evaluations of employment programs usually focus on direct impacts on participants. Yet employment programs can have a range of indirect effects that are rarely quantified. This paper analyzes the...
Region/Country: Côte d'Ivoire Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2018
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