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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.
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. For individuals, education promotes ...
Education is the key to addressing these gaps and driving climate action around the world. Indeed, education is the greatest predicator of climate-friendly behavior. Better educated people are more resilient and critical to spur innovation and climate solutions. An additional year of education increases climate awareness by 8.6%.
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.
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.
Indonesia needs an education and training system that can enhance the well-being of its citizens, improve its human capital, and achieve its economic and development goals. Indonesia has made significant progress in education, including large improvements in enrolment and gender parity. Decentralization was accompanied by an increase in ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2024 – A staggering 400 million students globally experienced school closures from extreme weather since 2022, according to a new World Bank report released today. The report examines the detrimental impacts of climate change on education in low- and middle-income countries and offers solutions to harness education to ...
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 ...
The World Bank’s Support to Indonesia’s Students and Teachers. The World Bank works to improve teaching and learning in Indonesia through the Improving Dimensions of Teaching, Education Management, and Learning Environment (ID-TEMAN) program, financed by the Australian government and World Bank funds. Started in 2016, it builds on research ...
COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker. The World Bank’s education team worked to support countries as they managed the changing education landscape during the pandemic. They advised on remote learning at scale and supported operations to facilitate post-pandemic learning recovery. The World Bank provides support to systemic education ...