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Education is the best investment
Blogging from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York City.New research by Chris Murray at the University of Washington gives us powerful evidence of the importance of...
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Gordon Brown hails education as the best anti-poverty program
Blogging from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York City.This morning, 69 million children would not have gone to school around the world. And of those who did, many did...
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Highlighting the State of Indigenous Peoples in Poverty and Development
Blogging from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York City.As world leaders gathered this week at the UN for the MDG Summit, the World Bank called critical attention to the...
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Charting a New Course for Education
Last week I attended the fall meeting of the board members of the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI), hosted by the government of Spain. Present were senior representatives of...
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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...
Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child DevelopmentAs leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...
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Education: the 2010 Year in Review
2010 was a banner year for education as global attention brought by the UN Millennium Development Goals summit in New York City spotlighted the catalytic role education plays in fighting poverty and...
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Jomtien, 20 Years Later: Global Education for All Partners Must Renew...
Twenty years ago when I was a relatively new economist at the World Bank, I was part of the Bank’s delegation to Jomtien, Thailand, where the heads of several multilateral development agencies,...
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Indigenous Peoples: Rights, Education and Some Promising Progress from Mexico
At this week's United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues meeting, the tenth such gathering of the world’s indigenous peoples, the UN launched a new initiative, the UN Indigenous Peoples’...
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Renewing urgency around Education for All?
As donors, developing country governments, civil society and private sector representatives gather in Copenhagen for the replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), I feel both a sense...
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Getting to Equal in Education
International Women’s Day is a good day to remind ourselves that gender equality is indeed smart economics. As the global economy continues to struggle to regain its footing after a severe economic...
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Interview: A “Bright Horizon” for Girls’ Education
The Bank’s education team recently hosted a one-day colloquium, “Getting to Equal in Education,” to address how girls worldwide can achieve the full benefits of a quality education and as a result lead...
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Bond management, the global financial crisis, and girls' education: Which one...
At a time of fundamental uncertainty on global financial markets, how should the World Bank help countries respond? Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of the global bond management giant PIMCO, took on this...
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Ce înseamnă învățământul pentru toți pentru Europa și Asia Centrală
Ca urmare a lansării recente a noii Strategii a Băncii Mondiale în domeniul Învățământului pentru 2020 de către Președintele Robert Zoellick, începem acum să reflectăm despre felul cum această...
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