This book is the World Bank's strategy to guide its work with ECA clients in education.
The countries of the region entered the transition with significant accomplishments in education to their credit. Accordingly, in the early stages of the transition it was felt that education could be safely ignored as the region faced such staggering problems as collapsing economies and rapidly increasing poverty.
Ten years later the reality has changed. Institutions are shifting with significant consequences for education. In most countries education systems have joined the ranks of the deeply troubled sectors.
Significant problems have surfaced: problems of financing, efficiency, equity, governance, management, and accountability . ECA education systems now are not producing graduates able to adapt flexibly to the skill demands of interconnected market economies or vigorous civic societies.
This book proposes ways to reframe ECA's systems of education to fit the new realities.
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