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Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico
P. Gertler, H. Patrinos, M. Rubio-Codina / World Bank, 2006Mexico’s compensatory education programme provides extra resources to primary schools that enrol disadvantaged students in highly disadvantaged rural communities.DocumentA comparative analysis of school-based management in Central America
E. di Gropello / World Bank, 2006This paper provides a comparative analysis of school-based management reforms in four Central American countries: EDUCO in El Salvador; PRONADE in Guatemala; PROHECO in Honduras; and Centros Autonomos in Nicaragua. It starts by providing a characterisation of the models and then reviews how they have expanded community participation and empowerment and school decision-making autonomy.DocumentPaying taxes: the global picture
World Bank, 2006In considering business taxation reform, the emphasis is usually on corporate income tax rates. However, income taxes represent only a proportion of the number and amount of taxes paid by businesses, and compliance time involved.This report argues for reforms to consider the total tax contribution, including administrative burdens for businesses and governments.DocumentClose to home: development impact of remittances in Latin America
P. Fajnzylber, J. Humberto López / World Bank, 2006The report focuses on the impact of remittances on poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report analyses the characteristics of households that are remittance recipients and how these characteristics affect the poverty-reducing impact of observed remittances flows.DocumentA profile of the world's young developing country migrants
D.J. McKenzie / World Bank, 2006Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world.DocumentRegional consultative meeting on taking the HRH agenda forward at country level (18-20 July 2005, Brazzaville, Congo): African human resources for health observatory working paper
World Bank, 2005This working paper, from an African regional consultative meeting on human resources for health (HRH), highlights the background to and working arrangements of a proposed African HRH observatory. The paper notes that while progress has been made in some health systems, a lack of data from across the region has made it very difficult to compare and contrast any progress.DocumentGender equality as smart economics: a World Bank gender action plan (fiscal years 2007 -2010)
World Bank, 2006This plan commits the World Bank to intensify and scale up gender mainstreaming in the economic sector over four years, in partnership with client countries, donors and other development agencies. Apart from the commitment to reach MDG 3 on women's equality, the rationale is that women's labour force participation and and earnings are associated with reduced poverty and faster economic growth.DocumentThe full social returns to education: estimates based on countries' economic growth performance
A. Mingat, J-P. Tan / World Bank, 1996This paper reports new estimates of the social returns to education, using countries' economic performance during 1960-85 to capture the externalities from education.DocumentPrivate participation in infrastructure database
World Bank, 2006The newly upgraded and updated Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Project Database website provides information about 3,000 infrastructure projects that involve private investment, for 150 low- and middle- income countries.DocumentStrengthening Bank Group engagement on governance and anticorruption
World Bank, 2006This paper responds to the Development Committee’s request for a document articulating the World Bank Group’s strategy for heightening its focus on governance and anticorruption as an integral part of its work to reduce poverty and promote growth.Pages