Browsing by Author "World Bank"
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Apoyando el desarrollo en la primera infancia : de la ciencia a la aplicación a gran escala
WHO. World Health Organization; UNICEF; World Bank (WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, 2016-10)Mensajes clave de la serie: Las consecuencias de salud y económicas de no actuar son elevadas. Un alarmante 43% de los niños menores de cinco años que viven en países de ingresos bajos y medianos (en total, unos 250 millones ... -
Brazil : Higher Education Sector Study, Volume 1
World Bank (World Bank, 2000-06)The Government of Brazil is analyzing options for improving and restructuring higher education over the next two to three decades. At the request of the Minister for Education, Mr. Paulo Renato, the Bank undertook an ... -
Brazil Higher Education Sector Study : Volume II
World Bank (World Bank, 2000-06)Brazil has put significant resources into developing its higher education system over the past three decades. As a result, a system has evolved in which some institutions have achieved recognizable excellence in teaching ... -
Citizen Report Card Surveys : A Note on the Concept and Methodology
World Bank (World Bank, 2004)This note provides a short summary of the concept and key phases involved in implementing a citizen report card (CRC) survey. CRCs are client feedback surveys that provide a quantitative measure of user perceptions on the ... -
RES, Research Manual. Resilience in Education Systems: Research Methods
World Bank (World Bank, 2013)This manual presents the objectives and procedures for application of a research framework using a mixed-methods approach from the Education Resilience Approaches (ERA) Program to help collect evidence on the opportunities, ... -
Toward High-Quality Education in Peru : Standards, Accountability, and Capacity Building
World Bank (The World Bank, 2007)One of the principal challenges in reducing poverty and accelerating development in Peru is improving the quality of education. This book is a contribution from the World Bank to the debate over how to improve the quality ... -
“United We Stand Divided We Fall” : Maternal Social Participation and Children’s Nutritional Status in Peru
Favara, Marta; World Bank (World Bank, 2012-11)In previous literature, social capital has been hypothesized as a substitute for other forms of capital, such as physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between ...