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  • MPI Bildungsforschung  (32)
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  • 2010-2014  (33)
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264795
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (32 p)
    Content: The global financial crisis has not only dealt a major blow to the global economy, but also shaken confidence in economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures, especially in the housing bubble and its transmission to the financial system, but also glaring state failures that propagated and exacerbated the crisis. Will the events of the past two years lead to major shifts in thinking about development economics, and should they? This paper assesses that question for several key domains of development thinking, including the market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand, changed global circumstances and new awareness of vulnerability should lead to some policy changes, as developing countries take steps to reduce and buffer risks, including risks generated in developed countries. At the same time, the crisis should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade - a world view that aims to achieve private sector-driven growth but sees a facilitating role for the state, promotes engaging with the global economy in ways that advance development, and values pragmatism, experimentation, and evidence-based policymaking over ideology
    Additional Edition: Rogers, F. Halsey The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking
    Language: English
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265921
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (51 p)
    Content: During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its educational attainment has risen rapidly-macro trends that are consistent with the hypothesis of a quantity-quality tradeoff in child-rearing. This paper investigates whether the micro-level evidence supports the hypothesis that Vietnamese parents are in fact making a tradeoff between quantity and quality of children. The paper presents new measures of household investment in private tutoring, together with traditional measures of household investments in education. It analyzes data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys and instruments for family size using the distance to the nearest family planning center. The estimation results show that families do indeed invest less in the education of school-age children who have larger numbers of siblings. This effect holds for several indicators of educational investment-including general education expenditure and various measures of private tutoring investment-and is robust to various definitions of family size and model specifications that control for community characteristics as well as the distance to the city center. Finally, the results suggest that tutoring may be a better measure of quality-oriented household investments in education than traditional measures like enrollment, which are arguably less nuanced and household-driven
    Additional Edition: Dang, Hai-Anh The Decision to Invest in Child Quality over Quantity
    Language: English
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264604
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (35 p)
    Content: The global financial crisis has already led to sharp downturns in the developing world. In the past, international aid has been able to offset partially the effects of crises that began in the developing world, but because this crisis began in the wealthy countries, donors may be less willing or able to increase aid in this crisis. Not only have donor-country incomes fallen, but the cause of the drop - the banking and financial-sector crisis - may exacerbate the effect on aid flows because of its heavy fiscal costs. This paper estimates how donor-country banking crises have affected aid flows in the past, using panel data from 24 donor countries between 1977 and 2007. The analysis finds that banking crises in donor countries are associated with a substantial additional fall in aid flows, beyond any income-related effects, perhaps because of the high fiscal costs of crisis and the debt hangover in the post-crisis periods. In most specifications, aid flows from crisis-affected countries fall by an average of 20 to 25 percent (relative to the counterfactual) and bottom out only about a decade after the banking crisis hits. In addition, the results confirm that donor-country incomes are robustly related to per-capita aid flows, with an elasticity of about 3. Because all donor countries are being hit hard by the current global recession, and several have also suffered banking-sector crises, there are reasons to expect that aid could fall by a significant amount (again, relative to the counterfactual) in the coming years - just when aid may be most clearly justified to help smooth exogenous shocks to developing countries
    Additional Edition: Dang, Hai-Anh International aid and financial crises in donor countries
    Language: English
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  • 4
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264732
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
    Content: This paper offers new measures of aid quality covering 38 bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as new insights about the robustness and usefulness of such measures. The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the follow-up 2008 Accra Agenda for Action have focused attention on common donor practices that reduce the development impact of aid. Using 18 underlying indicators that capture these practices - derived from the OECD-DAC's Survey for Monitoring the Paris Declaration, the new AidData database, and the DAC aid tables - the authors construct an overall aid quality index and four coherently defined sub-indexes on aid selectivity, alignment, harmonization, and specialization. Compared with earlier indicators used in donor rankings, this indicator set is more comprehensive and representative of the range of donor practices addressed in the Paris Declaration, improving the validity, reliability, and robustness of rankings. One of the innovations is to increase the validity of the aid quality indicators by adjusting for recipient characteristics, donor aid volumes, and other factors. Despite these improvements in data and methodology, the authors caution against overinterpretation on overall indexes such as these. Alternative plausible assumptions regarding weights or the inclusion of additional indicators can still produce marked shifts in the ranking of some donors, so that small differences in overall rankings are not meaningful. Moreover, because the performance of some donors varies considerably across the four sub-indexes, these sub-indexes may be more useful than the overall index in identifying donors' relative strengths and weaknesses
    Additional Edition: Knack, Stephen Aid Quality and Donor Rankings
    Language: English
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264974
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (35 p)
    Content: According to World Bank policy, countries remain eligible to borrow from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development until they are able to sustain long-term development without further recourse to Bank financing. Graduation from the Bank is not an automatic consequence of reaching a particular income level, but rather is supposed to be based on a determination of whether the country has reached a level of institutional development and capital-market access that enables it to sustain its own development process without recourse to Bank funding. This paper assesses how International Bank for Reconstruction and Development graduation policy operates in practice, investigating what income and non-income factors appear to have influenced graduation decisions in recent decades, based on panel data for 1982 through 2008. Explanatory variables include the per-capita income of the country, as well as measures of institutional development and market access that are cited as criteria by the graduation policy, and other plausible explanatory variables that capture the levels of economic development and vulnerability of the country. The authors find that the observed correlates of Bank graduation are generally consistent with the stated policy. Countries that are wealthier, more creditworthy, more institutionally developed, and less vulnerable to shocks are more likely to have graduated. Predicted probabilities generated by the model correspond closely to the actual graduation and de-graduation experiences of most countries (such as Korea and Trinidad and Tobago), and suggest that Hungary and Latvia may have graduated prematurely-a prediction consistent with their subsequent return to borrowing from the Bank in the wake of the global financial crisis
    Additional Edition: Heckelman, Jac C Crossing the threshold
    Language: English
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  • 6
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265128
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (40 p)
    Content: Improving governance is central to improving results in human development. It is clear that money is not enough: improved outcomes from service delivery require better governance, including mechanisms for holding service providers accountable and appropriate incentives for performance. There is therefore a growing demand for indicators to measure how and whether these processes work, and how they affect health and education results. This paper makes the case for measuring governance policies and performance, and the quality of service delivery in health and education. It develops a framework for selecting and measuring a set of indicators and proposes options, drawing from new and innovative measurement tools and approaches. The paper proposes the adoption of a more systematic approach that will both facilitate the work of health and education policymakers and allow for cross-country comparisons and benchmarking
    Additional Edition: Fiszbein, Ariel Making Services Work
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264040
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 082139925X , 0821399268 , 9780821399255 , 9780821399262
    Note: "The report was prepared by a World Bank team led by Raffaello Cervigni and including (in alphabetical order) Abimbola A. Adubi, Ademola Braimoh, Amos Abu, Anushika Karunaratne, Benedicte Marie Cecile Augeard , Beula Selvadurai, Ella Omomene Iklaga, Erik Magnus Fernstrom, Francesca Fusaro, Irina Dvorak, Joseph Ese Akpokodje, Rikard Liden, Sarwat Hussain, Shobha Shetty, Stephen Danyo, Stephen Ling. Onno Ruhl, former Country Director for Nigeria, provided guidance and institutional support. - Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
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  • 8
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048264092
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9781464800269
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
    Language: English
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  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Leverkusen, Germany : Barbara Budrich Publishers
    UID:
    gbv_1678587982
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (100 pages) , illustrations
    ISBN: 3847402587 , 9783847402589 , 9783847406327
    Series Statement: Study Guides in Adult Education
    Content: 2.2 What is learning?2.2.1 Learning as process ; 2.2.2 Learning what? ; 2.2.3 Learning as change -- domains of change ; 2.2.4 Learning in contexts ; 2.3 Summary; III The Base of the Iceberg: Informal Learning, its Nature and Processes ; 3.1 The nature of informal learning; 3.2 The processes of informal learning; 3.3 Summary; IV Informal (prior) Learning: What has been Learned; 4.1 Prior learning; 4.1.1 Pre-understanding; 4.1.2 Funds of knowledge ; 4.1.3 Frames of reference ; 4.1.4 Imaginaries and Discourses ; 4.2 All these attributes have been and are being learned; 4.3 Summary.
    Content: 5.4 The interaction of informal and formal learning: four approaches5.4.1 Using informal to assist formal and non-formal learning ; 5.4.2 Using formal and non-formal learning to redress informal learning; 5.4.3 Giving recognition and value to informal learning ; 5.4.4 Promoting continual dialogic learning ; 5.5 Some questions for teachers; 5.6 Summary; VI Conclusion: Does it matter? ; 6.1 Why is this discussion important?; Bibliography ; Index; About the Author.
    Content: Cover ; The Base of the Iceberg. Informal Learning and Its Impact on Formal and Non-formal Learning; Contents ; Preface ; I. Introduction: "Unsettling tradition" ; 1.1 From 'education' to 'learning': a change of Discourse; 1.2 The dangers of confusion; II The Iceberg: Exploring the Relationship between Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Learning ; 2.1 Three kinds of learning; 2.1.1 Expanding the definitions ; 2.1.2 Intention and agency in learning ; 2.1.3 The learning continuum ; 2.1.4 Relationship of formal, non-formal and informal learning; 2.1.5 A tool of analysis.
    Content: V Interactions between Informal Learning and Formal/Non-Formal Learning 5.1 Relations of formal and non-formal learning; 5.1.1 Teaching and learning ; 5.1.2 Similarities and differences ; 5.1.3 The changing balance between formal and non-formal learning ; 5.2 Relations between formal/non-formal learning andinformal learning; 5.2.1 Similarities and differences ; 5.2.2 The contemporary dominance of formal learning ; 5.3 Taking account of informal learning; 5.3.1 The demeaning of informal learning ; 5.3.2 What learners bring to new learning from informal learning.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783847406327
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rogers, Alan Base of the iceberg : informal learning and its impact on formal and non-formal learning Leverkusen, Germany ; Berlin, Germany : Barbara Budrich Publishers, ©2014 ISBN 9783847406327
    Language: English
    Subjects: Education , Psychology
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    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 10
    UID:
    gbv_623079402
    Format: XII, 223 S. , Ill., graph. Darst. , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0230619460 , 9780230619463
    Series Statement: Secondary education in a changing world
    Content: This collection's focus is on girls' secondary education. The gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes & upper classes will provide the dominant narrative, given the relatively recent democratization of European educational systems
    Content: This collection's focus is on girls' secondary education. The gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes & upper classes will provide the dominant narrative, given the relatively recent democratization of European educational systems
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Education
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    Keywords: Europa ; Mädchenbildung ; Sekundarstufe ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Cover
    Author information: Albisetti, James C. 1949-
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