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Alain Mingat

Bio: Alain Mingat is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Primary education & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 101 publications receiving 2182 citations. Previous affiliations of Alain Mingat include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & University of Burgundy.


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11 Aug 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the largest low-income countries that are furthest from the goal, home to about seventy five percent of the children out of school globally, and identify a new policy, and financing framework for faster global progress in primary education.
Abstract: A number of countries committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at eradicating extreme poverty, and improving the welfare of people by the year 2015. The book assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015. The study focuses on the largest low-income countries that are furthest from the goal, home to about seventy five percent of the children out of school globally. By analyzing education policies, and financing patterns in relatively high-performing countries, the study identifies a new policy, and financing framework for faster global progress in primary education. The authors use a simulation model to show how adoption of this framework, could accelerate progress in low-income countries, currently at risk of not reaching the education MDG. The study however, makes it clear that worldwide attainment of universal primary education by 2015, will necessitate an even stronger combination of political will, deep and sustained reform, faster dissemination of best practices, and intensified financial effort than has been marshaled to date.

282 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors document the main features of education in Asian countries and relate differences in policy choices to education outcomes, focusing on education costs and financing since these aspects of the education system reveal how resources are deployed in the sector.
Abstract: Education is universally recognized as an important investment in human capital. This study documents the progress of education in Asian countries. Asia offers a particularly rich context for study because countries have such different education outcomes and sectoral policies. The comparative data give countries in the region a fresh perspective for examining their progress and policies in education in relation to their neighbors. The study has two primary objectives: 1) to document the main features of education in Asian countries; and 2) to relate differences in policy choices to education outcomes. The focus is on education costs and financing since these aspects of the education system reveal how resources are deployed in the sector. The study emphasizes cross-country analysis, highlighting differences among countries rather than details about individual countries. Special attention was paid to compiling data and indicators that satisfy two requirements: comparability across countries and consistency within countries. Comparisons among countries are based on indicators of the formation of human capital and the promotion of social equity. For human capital formation, the broad concern is the efficiency of investments in education. For the promotion of equity, the principal concerns are distribution of resources and access to education.

181 citations

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TL;DR: Duru-Bellat, Alain Mingat, et al. as discussed by the authors studied the unerwunschten Nebenwirkungen einer Gleichstellungspraxis.
Abstract: Marie Duru-Bellat, Alain Mingat : Die Bildung der Niveauklassen in den Mittelschulen : die unerwunschten Nebenwirkungen einer Gleichstellungspraxis. ; ; Dieser Aufsatz mochte auf der Grundlage von Daten der DEP (Prospektivs- und Bewertungsabteilung des Erziehungsministeriums) in den Colleges (Mittelschulen) zwischen 1989 und 1992 die Haufigkeit und die Praxiswirkung der Bildung von Niveauklassen bewerten. Er sucht zunachst, das Konzept operativ zu gestalten und anschliessend, eine Schatzung abzuleiten, deren willkurlicher Charakter erklart wird, zum Prozentsatz der Mittelschulen, die diese Art Klassen bei Beginn der sechsten Schulklasse einfuhren. Der Aufsatz befasst sich mit der von der Schulerzusammenfuhrung aufgrund der Lernsprache gespielten Rolle in der Bildung von Niveauklassen innerhalb dieser Schulen. Zum Schluss wird eine Modellisierte Analyse der Auswirkungen der Zusammenfuhrungsart gebracht auf die Lernfortschritte der Schuler im Verlauf der beiden ersten Mittelschuljahre und daruber hinaus eine Bewertung dieses kontextuellen Faktors auf die Orientierung am Ende der funften Schulklasse. Aus diesen Untersuchungen geht hervor, dass die Niveauklassen (oder andere Einrichtungen mit gleichem Zweck wie die Dreijahreszyklen) bei diesem Schulabschnitt eher dazu fuhren, die Ungleichheit zwischen den Schulern zu fordern.

124 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a partir des resultats d'une enquete longitudinale portant sur 2 200 enfants, quels facteurs sont associes a la variabilite des acquisitions en fin de CP and quels sont leur poids respectif.
Abstract: Le texte examine, a partir des resultats d'une enquete longitudinale portant sur 2 200 enfants, quels facteurs sont associes a la variabilite des acquisitions en fin de CP et quels sont leur poids respectif. Est notamment evaluee l'influence i) des facteurs personnels caracteristiques de l'eleve (developpement cognitif et langagier, comportement vis-a-vis de l'ecole) quand il aborde l'ecole elementaire, ii) des facteurs caracteristiques de son milieu familial et iii) des differences dans le fonctionnement de l'ecole d'un lieu a l'autre d'enseignement. Les resultats montrent que les differenciations liees a l'eleve sont les plus importantes et que l'ecole fait globalement plus de differences que les variables sociales et familiales ; cela dit, il est montre que les differenciations qui tiennent a l'ecole ne sont expliquees que minoritairement par les caracteristiques organisationnelies de l'enseignement (taille de la classe, heterogeneite des eleves, formation pedagogique initiale de l'enseignant, ...), les ecarts qui tiennent en soi au maitre se revelant exercer un poids sensiblement plus important. Ce constat de l'existence de fortes differences d'efficacite pedagogique des maitres manifeste d'une part qu'il n'existe pas un determinisme strict dans le fonctionnement de l'ecole, en tout cas pas un determinisme social massif, et d'autre part qu'il existe des espaces de liberte substantiels pour les pedagogies. Cela dit, l'identification, sur une base factuelle, des elements techniques et relationnels efficaces de ces pedagogies reste a faire ; ce point constitue un challenge majeur de la recherche actuelle en education.

99 citations

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TL;DR: Duru-Bellat et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the Ablauf der Schullaufbahn der durchschnittlichen Schuler, der Schuler aus den unteren Volksschichten.
Abstract: Marie Duru-Bellat, Alain Mingat : Der Ablauf der Schullaufbahn im "Gymnasium" (College) : der Kontext "macht die Unterschiede"... ; ; Seit dem Colemanbericht beschaftigten sich relativ wenig Arbeiten, besonders in Frankreich, mit der Studie dieser "kontextuellen Auswirkungen", die doch wahrscheinlich "die Unterschiede machten" in Bezug auf die Schullaufbahn der Kinder und soziale Ungleichheiten bewirkten. Konkret sollen hier die Variablen berucksichtigt werden, wie die soziale Zusammensetzung des besuchten Gymnasiums, die Struktur des Lehrkorpers, seine Praxis in Bezug auf die Gruppierung von Schulern, das Platzangebot usw. In diesem Aufsatz befasst sich die Fragestellung zugleich mit methodologischen Problemen in der spezifischen Analyse der Kontexteinwirkung und mit dem Gewicht dieser kontextuellen Variablen, verglichen mit den individuellen Variablen, in der Entstehung der Schullaufbahnen im Gymnasium. Die auf eine Langsschnittuntersuchung bei 2500 Schiilern begrundete Analyse zeigt klar die Bedeutung des Kontextes (und besonders einiger seiner Eigenschaften) fur den Ablauf der Schullaufbahn der durchschnittlichen Schuler, und besonders der Schuler aus den unteren Volksschichten.

95 citations


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George Psacharopoulos1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss methodological issues surrounding those estimates and confirm that primary education continues to be the number one investment priority in developing countries, and also show that educating females is marginally more profitable than educating males, and that the academic secondary school curriculum is a better investment than the technical/vocational tract.

3,182 citations

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TL;DR: This article provided an explanation of three widely documented empirical phenomena: increasing educational participation rates, little change in class differentials, and little increase in class differential between different classes in the US.
Abstract: In this paper we seek to provide an explanation of three widely documented empirical phenomena. These are: (i) increasing educational participation rates; (ii) little change in class differentials ...

1,678 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the demographic transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility has been more dramatic in East Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period, and that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so-called economic miracle.
Abstract: The demographic transition a change from high to low rates of mortality and fertility has been more dramatic in East Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so-called economic miracle. The 'miracle' occurred in part because East Asia's demographic transition resulted in its working-age population growing at a much faster pace than its dependent population during the period 1965-1990, thereby expanding the per capita productive capacity of East Asian economies. This effect was not inevitable; rather, it occured because East Asian countries had social, economic, and political institutions and policies that allowed them to realize the growth potential created by the transition. The empirical analyses indicate that population growth has a purely transitional effect on economic growth; this effect operates only when the dependent and working-age populations are growing at different rates. An important implication of these results is that future demographic change will tend to depress growth rates in East Asia, while it will promote more rapid economic growth in Southeast and South Asia.

1,254 citations

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TL;DR: Surveys in which enumerators make unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities are reported.
Abstract: In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators make unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities.

1,205 citations

Book
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: A minimal theory of social transfers and a guide to the tests for accounting for social spending, jobs and growth in the OECD Appendices is given in this paper, along with an explanation of the rise of mass public schooling.
Abstract: Part V. The Underlying Framework: 13. A minimal theory of social transfers 14. A guide to the tests Part VI. Accounting for Social Spending, Jobs and Growth: 15. Explaining the rise of mass public schooling 16. Explaining the rise of social transfers 17. What drove postwar social spending? 18. Social transfers hardly affected growth 19. Reconciling unemployment and growth in the OECD Appendices.

804 citations