World Bank Financing of Education : Lending, Learning and Development

ISBN-13: 9780415404761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 289 str.

Phillip W. Jones

Opis

Based on detailed analysis of thousands of confidential World Bank documents, this book outlines the evolution of World Bank lending policies in education, and assesses the policy impact of the Bank's educational projects. It demonstrates that the World Bank lies at the centre of the major changes in global education of our time.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Bank at Work; Chapter 2 Getting Started in Education 1960–3; Chapter 3 Early Project Experience in Education 1963–8; Chapter 4 Education in the McNamara Years 1968–80; Chapter 5 From Development to Reform; Chapter 6 The Triumph of Educational Fundamentalism 1986–95; Chapter 7 From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz; Chapter 8 World Bank Priorities for Educational Financing;

O autorze

Phillip W. Jones is Director of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a prominent authority on the education policies and programs of the World Bank and UN agencies. Professor Jones’ most recent Routledge Falmer title was The United Nations and Education: Multilateralism, Development and Globalisation (2005).