2nd Edition
World Bank Financing of Education Lending, Learning and Development
By Phillip W. Jones
Copyright 2007
320 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on detailed analysis of thousands of confidential World Bank documents, this book demonstrates that the World Bank lies at the centre of the major changes in global education of our time. It outlines the evolution of World Bank lending policies in education, and assesses the policy impact of the Bank's educational projects, looking at how it has:
shaped the economic and social policies... Read more
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;
Biography
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).
