Delivery of Education Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The … infringe on the effectiveness of service delivery in the education sector. Country teams prepared country assessments of … intergovernmental arrangements in the education sector. Each country report reviewed the roles being played by different actors in the …

The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV …/AIDS, specifically because a good basic education ranks among the most effective - and cost-effective - means of HIV prevention. It also … merits priority because the very education system that supplies a nation's future, is being greatly threatened by the …

This report compiles a rich set of previously unavailable data to define where the education sector in Albania has … broad tasks must be tackled to improve education. The country must: 1) increase enrollment rates with the goal of achieving … truly universal education in primary and lower secondary schools, and reversing the actual trend of decreasing secondary …

The Millennium Development Goals aim for universal primary education by 2015 and gender equality in enrolments at all … levels of education. The Education for All (EFA) initiative lays out a strategy for achieving these goals. The Bank's own … to education is expanded. This report assesses the impact to date of the efforts over the past 15 years toward increasing …

Peru has reached a crossroads for education policy at the beginning of the 21st century. The status quo reflects major … poor departments was better than non-poor departments of education. To level the playing field for all Peruvian children …

Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenia had a highly developed and expensive education system, matching the … in primary-secondary education with a small fraction of the former budget, while reorienting the system to the needs of a … Armenia to promote restructuring and to secure adequate financing of the education system over the medium term. The paper …

environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding … late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to …. The report identifies challenges at all levels of formal education, where a medium term goal is to achieve universal …