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Enhancing Learning Opportunities in Africa: Distance Education and Information and Communication Technologies for Learning

Paud Murphy, Steve Anzalone, Andrea Bosch, Jeanne Moulton

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xii, 55 pp.

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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

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Information and Communication Technologies: A World Bank Group Strategy

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xv, 82 pp.

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Closing the Gap in Access to Rural Communications: Chile 1995-2002

Bjorn Wellenius

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 52 pp.

"In 1994 the government established a Telecommunications Development Fund, financed by the national budget, to catalyze additional private investment in payphone service in rural and urban areas with low income and low telephone density. The Fund has been very successful. Between 1995 and 2000 it su ... pported the provision of payphone service to more than 6,000 rural localities with about 2.2 million inhabitants, thereby reducing the proportion of Chile's population living in places without access to basic voice communication from 15 percent in 1994 to 1 percent in 2002. In addition, some 25,000 individual rural telephone lines are being provided. The subsidies awarded cost the government less than 0.3 percent of total telecommunications sector revenue during the funding period, and Fund administration cost about 3 percent of the monies granted. The Fund's success was due largely to extensive reliance on market forces to determine and allocate subsidies, minimal regulatory intervention, simple and relatively expeditious processing, and effective government leadership. Competition among existing and new operators for the rural market and subsidies led to substantial reductions in cost to the government compared to earlier public sector investments in similar facilities. Commercial success has hinged on operators using the subsidized payphone infrastructures to also provide individual business and residential telephone lines and, subsequently, add value through new services (including voice mail and internet access in some areas) over this network. Interconnection was the single most important regulatory factor of commercial viability, with access charges in some cases surpassing 40 percent of rural operating revenues. The design of the Fund proved robust, and remains the leading example of a costeffective slution to reduce access gaps in basic communication in emerging economies. Some questions remain, however, about whether the services can be sustained in the long term, what to do with the small residual rural population still excluded, and whether anything needs to be done in urban areas. These questions-in addition to limited design improvements suggested by the Fund's experience, as well as work still in progress on quality standards and monitoring-are relevant to the Fund's proposed extension into more advanced modes of communication and access to information, as well as to other countries learning from the Chilean experience." (Executive summary) more

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Public Communication Programmes for Privatization Projects: A Toolkit for World Bank Task Team Leaders and Clients

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), 74 pp.

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Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor

Juan Navas-Sabater, Niina Juntune, Andrew Dymond

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xi, 101 pp.

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Who Owns the Media?

Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova, Andrei Shleifer

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), 52 pp.

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Information and Communication Technology, Poverty, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Miria Pigato

Washington, DC: World Bank (2001), 67 pp.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development

Carlos A. Primo Braga, Carsten Fink, Claudia Paz Sepulveda

Washington, DC: World Bank (2000), ix, 57 pp.

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Toward Literate Societies: Publishing in Local Languages

Ingrid Jung

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 24-33

"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part of GIZ), in cooperation with other agencies, has be ... more

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Donor Support for Book Imports

Laurent Loric

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 106-114

"Examines the question of aid for book imports in the francophone region of Africa, and takes a critical look at some current strategies for aid schemes in terms of their effectiveness and cost-efficiency." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2245)

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A Global Partnership Experience: EDICEF in Cameroon

Laurent Loric

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 180-185

"The partnership between EDICEF (part of the French Hachette Group) and Edition CLE of Yaoundé in Cameroon is used to draw general conclusions about publishing partnerships between industrial and developing countries, examining which aspects work and those that are rendered difficult by the intrins ... more

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Interactive Radio Instruction: Impact, Sustainability, and Future Directions

Alan Dock, John Helwig (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank; USAID, Advanced Basic Education and Literacy Project (1999), viii, 65 pp.

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Donor Support for Textbooks in Africa

Brigid O’Connor

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 115-122

"Analyzes the impact of donor support for book purchases on both the education systems and the domestic publishing industry. The author (formerly with the British Council in Lagos) identifies a number of positive impacts of textbook donation programmes, and suggests ways of improving the delivery of ... more

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Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
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Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1998), ix, 229 pp.

"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”, ... more

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Participatory Development Tool Kit: Training Manuals for Agencies and Communities

Deepa Narayan, Lyra Srinivasan

Washington, DC: World Bank (1995), ix, 68 pp.

"Experience gained in many countries shows that the acceptance and use of participatory processes is essential to achieve sustainable development. However, without tools and materials to support participatory approaches, wishes do not translate into reality. This tool kit of visual materials was pre ... pared in response to the repeated demands from people working in the field for materials that can help decision makers, project staff, training institutes, trainers and artists initiate the process of developing their own local materials to address their specific concerns. While the need for greater access to this material is clear, we hesitated for some time in putting out a global tool kit for three main reasons. First, because development is rooted in the social, cultural, economic, and political context of societies and its institutions, visual materials should be a reflection of these realities and hence, of necessity, are location-specific. Can a global tool kit, then, serve a useful purpose? After much field experience, we have concluded that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten years, we have found that participatory training is more likely to take root and spread if local trainers and artists have some visual materials to spark their imaginations and, in some sense, to use as models. Just reading about a "pocket chart" is not sufficient; seeing and handling one makes all the difference in understanding the material, its applications, and possible uses. Second, despite the importance of visual materials, readers should not conclude that community development work requires prepared visuals. Many of the activities described can be conducted without the materials included in this kit. For example, maps can be drawn on the ground, and voting can be done by putting stones in squares scratched in the dirt. Issues surrounding gender analysis can be discussed effectively in a group without any visual aids at all. It is up to practitioners to change, simplify, and adapt the materials to their own needs. At the same time, we have found that visual materials are extremely effective in breaking class, gender, education, literacy, professional training, and status barriers. This is true at both the community and agency levels. At the community level they empower those who are not used to speaking up-such as women and the poor-to express themselves and their ideas through drawing, role plays, songs, stories, puppetry and through manipulating materials that are simple to use." (Preface) more

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Monitoring and Evaluating Social Programs in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Policymakers, Managers, and Researchers

Joseph J. Valadez, Michael Bamberger

Washington, DC: World Bank (1994), xxviii, 519 pp.

"This book provides a comprehensive review of the available techniques for monitoring and evaluating social programs. Specifically the book discusses: (a) methods of evaluating social and economic projects; (b) methods for participatory and rapid assessment; (c) quasi-experimental designs; and (d) t ... more

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Nigeria Books Sector Study: Summary Report

Anthony Read

Washington, DC; London: World Bank; Overseas Development Administration (ODA) (1990), 38 pp.

"A report on the state of the book sector commissioned by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education, funded by the World Bank and Overseas Development Administration, and carried out by the British Council and the Book Development Council." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan ... more

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Textbooks in the Developing World: Economic and Educational Choices

Joseph P. Farrell, Stephen P. Heyneman (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank; Economic Development Institute (EDI) (1989), xi, 219 pp.

"A collection of 16 papers that focus on what has been learned in two decades of developing and implementing large-scale national textbook programmes, and the World Bank’s role in assisting textbook development. Organized into four parts it covers (1) The Design and Implementation of Textbook Prog ... more

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Analysis of Research on Textbook Availability and Quality in Developing Countries

B. Paxman, C. Denning, A. Read

London: Book Development Council; World Bank (1989), 31 pp.

The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development Deep Insights

Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends Deep Insights

The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
Deep Insights

Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Deep Insights