World bank financing of education : lending, learning and development

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