Does greater access to education come at the expense of educational quality? What public policies can diminish the decline in quality of education when public funds are limited and enrollments are expanding?Developing countries have been quite successful at expanding school enrollment,...

Policymakers in most developing countries are concerned about high dropout rates and poor student learning in primary education. The government of the Philippines initiated the Dropout Intervention Program in 1990-92 as part of its effort to address these issues. Under this program, four...

Policymakers in most developing countries are concerned about high dropout rates and poor student learning in primary education. The government of the Philippines initiated the Dropout Intervention Program in 1990-92 as part of its effort to address these issues. Under this program, four...

Seit Jahrzehnten gehört es zu den Besonderheiten der Grundschulausbildung in den Philippinen, daß zwar ein hoher Prozentsatz der Kinder im entsprechenden Alter eingeschult wird, aber nicht weniger als 30% von ihnen wieder vor einem Abschluß (Grade 6) mit sehr geringem Wissensstand die Schule...

The authors explore differences in education in rich and poor countries by first systematically documenting the relationship between per capita GNP and various indicators of educational development. They then exploit a simple accounting identity relating the availability of resources to their...

Until comparatively recently, most training in most countries has been enterprise-based and has been financed by the employer, by the trainee, or both jointly, normally without money changing hands. As a first approximation, the cost of firm-specific training is absorbed by the employer, and the...