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Choosing Our Future: Education for Climate Action - World Bank Group
Summary: Education is a key asset for climate action. Education reshapes behaviors, develops skills, and spurs innovation—everything we need to combat the greatest crisis facing humanity. Better educated people are more resilient and adaptable, better equipped to create and work in green jobs, and critical to driving solutions.
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The Education Crisis: Being in School Is Not the Same as Learning
In rural India, nearly three-quarters of third graders cannot solve a two-digit subtraction problem such as 46 minus 17, and by grade five — half still cannot do so. The world is facing a learning crisis. While countries have significantly increased access to education, being in school isn’t the same thing as learning.
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Two-Thirds of Poorer Countries Are Cutting Education Budgets Due to ...
Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have, in fact, cut their public education budgets since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the new joint World Bank – UNESCO Education Finance Watch (EFW). In comparison, only one-third of upper-middle and high-income countries have reduced ...
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Education Finance Watch 2024 - World Bank Group
The Education Finance Watch 2021 provided a snapshot of how education budgets changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2010-2020, government education spending has increased steadily, but the Covid-19 pandemic impacted public finances dramatically, and the prospects for maintaining these increases have deteriorated.
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Lessons from Kenya’s Education Reforms - World Bank Group
Kenya’s education sector is recovering from the COVID-19 crisis after years of impressive improvements in outcomes, while implementing ambitious reforms that started before the pandemic. Between 2017 and 2019, the number of pre-primary schools increased by 11 percent and the number of secondary schools by 17 percent.
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Education: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Education At-A-Glance. Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income, and is the most important factor to ensure equity and inclusion.
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Girls' Education Overview - World Bank Group
Girls’ education is a strategic development priority for the World Bank. Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their human right, a global development priority, and a strategic priority for the World Bank. Achieving gender equality is central to the World Bank Group mission to end poverty on a livable planet.
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Education Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Overview. Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income, and is the most important factor to ensure equity and inclusion.
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World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise
About. The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the ...
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Financing for Education Stagnant or Declining Despite Chronic Learning ...
Education Finance Watch 2022, an annual report on the global state of education financing jointly produced by the World Bank, the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), finds that despite the significant learning losses stemming from the COVID-related school closures, overall government education spending has remained stagnant. Since the onset ...
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