TY - CHAP
T1 - Education, development, and poverty
T2 - An introduction to research on the world bank's education policy and revision process
AU - Collins, Christopher S.
AU - Wiseman, Alexander W.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The World Bank's Education Strategy 2020 is the latest in a line of education-related strategies focused on supporting economic development in countries worldwide through systematic and targeted educational reform. Yet, the Bank has many critics and a history of developing educational policies that do as much to create inequality in education as to develop it. This chapter introduces the theme of the volume by focusing on the link between the World Bank's education strategy development and poverty reduction. The key emphasis of this volume is the development of the Bank's Education Strategy 2020 and how it is shaped by empirical evidence, contextualized by national and regional variations in education and the economy, and the legacy of World Bank educational involvement. This introductory chapter concludes by summarizing the ways in which each of the volume's chapters contribute to this theme, and suggests how the debates related to the Bank's education strategies and policies can move forward and contribute to educational improvement, economic development, and poverty reduction worldwide.
AB - The World Bank's Education Strategy 2020 is the latest in a line of education-related strategies focused on supporting economic development in countries worldwide through systematic and targeted educational reform. Yet, the Bank has many critics and a history of developing educational policies that do as much to create inequality in education as to develop it. This chapter introduces the theme of the volume by focusing on the link between the World Bank's education strategy development and poverty reduction. The key emphasis of this volume is the development of the Bank's Education Strategy 2020 and how it is shaped by empirical evidence, contextualized by national and regional variations in education and the economy, and the legacy of World Bank educational involvement. This introductory chapter concludes by summarizing the ways in which each of the volume's chapters contribute to this theme, and suggests how the debates related to the Bank's education strategies and policies can move forward and contribute to educational improvement, economic development, and poverty reduction worldwide.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886671775&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2012)0000016004
DO - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2012)0000016004
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84886671775
SN - 9781780522760
T3 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
SP - 3
EP - 18
BT - Education Strategy in the Developing World
A2 - Collins, Christopher
A2 - Wiseman, Alexander
ER -