Education Sector
You can read more about their approach and results in our blog post “Global education quality in 4 charts”. Throughout this entry we have discussed ‘quantity’ measures of educational attainment. In the previous interactive visualisation we showed how the average number of years spent in school has been going up constantly across the world. For a discussion of evidence supporting this claim, see Hanushek, E. A., . As usual, correlation does not imply causation – but it does show an important pattern that supports the idea that education is indeed necessary to produce social capital. Further in-depth information on this topic, including definitions, data sources, historical trends and much more, can be found in our dedicated entry Financing Education. Nine community learning centers with trained staff and library facilities, continue to support community literacy and education programs. The World Bank Group is the largest financier of education in the developing world. We work on edu