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SABER School Health and School Feeding Tunisia Country Report 2015 (French)

This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Tunisia. The analysis is based on a World Bank tool developed as part of the Systems...
Region/Country: Tunisia Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2015

SABER Workforce Development Tunisia Country Report 2012 (French)

This report presents the findings of the assessment of the workforce development (WfD) system of Tunisia, conducted based on the World Bank?s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) WfD...
Region/Country: Tunisia Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2015

The demand for, and impact of, youth internships: evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen

[Impact Evaluation] This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational...
Region/Country: Yemen Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2015

The impact of information technology on the education sector in Afghanistan

The education system was one of the biggest casualties of the three decade old war in Afghanistan. In 2000, when the American led International Security Forces reached Afghanistan, there were less...
Region/Country: Afghanistan Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2015

The resilience of women in higher education in Afghanistan : Obstacles and opportunities in women's enrollment and graduation

Female access to higher education in Afghanistan is has been and continues to be limited. At the basic education level, the country has made great advances since 2000; it increased access from 900,...
Region/Country: Afghanistan Type: Education System Assessment Year: 2015

Bangladesh - Can conditional cash transfers improve nutrition?

Policymakers and development groups are interested in innovative ways to deliver cash transfer programs and make an impact where it?s needed most. In Bangladesh, World Bank researchers worked with...
Region/Country: Bangladesh Type: Brief Year: 2015

Enhance growth and employability through college education in Bangladesh

With the government?s commitments to education for all, Bangladesh has achieved its Millennium Development Goal of gender parity in primary and secondary education as well as made remarkable progress...
Region/Country: Bangladesh Type: Brief Year: 2015

From evidence to policy - Bangladesh: Can conditional cash transfers improve nutrition?

[Impact Evaluation, SIEF] Policymakers and development groups are interested in innovative ways to deliver cash transfer programs and make an impact where it?s needed most. In Bangladesh, World Bank...
Region/Country: Bangladesh Type: Brief Year: 2015

How does the short-term training program contribute to skills development in Bangladesh? A tracer study of the short-term training graduates

Skills development is one of the priorities for national economic development strategies of Bangladesh. The vision 2021 of the Government of Bangladesh gives the highest priority to building a large...
Region/Country: Bangladesh Type: Publication Year: 2015

Governance for quality in higher education in Odisha, India

The rise of the global economy, where social and economic development are driven by knowledge coupled with the information and technology revolution, signifies that tertiary education everywhere...
Region/Country: India Type: Publication Year: 2015
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