Academic progress for aid

The World Bank is certainly on to something here when focusing on the outcomes of education and not only the inputs.

"Around the world, aid from international donors buys textbooks, hires teachers, and opens schools - all worthy and necessary contributions in the fight to educate every child. But largely, the development equation remains fundamentally the same.

A new book presented at the World Bank recently by the Center for Global Development flips that equation on its head with proposed progress for aid for education. In essence, the idea entails paying a country not for inputs such as pencils or classrooms - but once each child educated passes certain bars such as completion of his or her grade level."

http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/node/567?cid=ISG_E_WBWeeklyUpdate_NL