Thematic Research Report series

Thematic Research Reports

241 complete publications covering the years 2005 to 2026.

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241 publications in this series

ICEQC-R-2009-10November 1, 2009

Thematic Research Report

Estimating the Education for All Financing Gap: Assumptions, Coverage and Uncertainty

A global comparative study of costing boundaries, domestic resources, external finance and uncertainty as at 1 November 2009

An Education for All financing gap is not a directly observed quantity. It is the residual of at least three estimates: the cost of a specified path towards specified education goals, the domestic public resources expected to finance that path, and the external resources expected to be available for the same activities and years. Each term contains choices about population, participation, service standards, prices, implementation pace and probability. A headline amount is therefore intelligible only when its boundary and components accompany it.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2009-09October 30, 2009

Thematic Research Report

Who Bears the Cost of Education? A Comparative Incidence Framework

A global comparative study of public finance, household burden, benefit distribution and the limits of education incidence analysis

Education is financed through taxation, public borrowing, intergovernmental transfers, external assistance, household payment, time, employers and community contribution. The person making an immediate payment is not always the person bearing the final economic burden, and the institution receiving an allocation is not the same as the learner receiving an educational benefit. Incidence analysis makes these relationships explicit.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2009-02March 13, 2009

Thematic Research Report

Out-of-School Populations during Economic Contraction: A Risk Profile

A global comparative indicator study of exclusion, household and public-finance transmission, distributional risk and protective monitoring

The global contraction has created a serious but not yet fully measured risk to educational participation. By the evidence cut-off, international assessments recorded a rapid weakening of output, trade, employment, credit and fiscal prospects. Education data, however, arrive on school-year and annual cycles and cannot yet show a complete, harmonised post-shock result. This report therefore presents a risk profile rather than an estimate of children made out of school by the crisis. It links the best available baseline on exclusion to observable household, labour-market, public-finance and service-continuity channels.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global