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These case studies were developed as teaching materials to explain simple analysis techniques for eight problems in the economics of education in developing countries. Each study is self-standing, but some studies are interdependent. The order of the studies progresses logically from broad budgetary problems in educational development to efficiency of resource use in schools to enhancing the contribution of private financing.

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Annotation This book seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Where do we stand today in relation to the target of universal primary completion? Is universal primary completion achievable by 2015? What would he required to achieve it? The book includes a CD-ROM containing a "hands-on" version of the simulation model developed by the authors and all of the background data used.

This hands-on interactive guide to evaluating and revamping education policy is designed to help policymakers in low-income countries identify weaknesses and make the most efficient use of scarce education resources. Education specialists in the developed world will also find the book an invaluable tool for analyzing priorities and arriving at cost-effective solutions given the practical and financial challenges teachers struggle with worldwide.

Using project success rather than earnings data from 115 Bank agriculture and nonagriculture projects as a criterion, this study assesses the efficiency of project-related training (PRT). This training achieves high returns only when the educational base of a country is sufficiently developed. Otherwise, it is not economic. Results suggest expansion of PRT training when a sufficiently high proportion of the population is literate, adaptation of the design and management of PRT to overcome existing skill deficiencies, and investment in basic education in countries with low education levels.