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Budgetary support for education, matched with the demand for skills, justifies large investments in the sector.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Financing arrangements for TVET across public and private schools need to take account of the broader framework of fiscal devolution in countries with significant decentralization policies.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Inclusive education planning and management decisions in decentralized public management systems require meeting the diverse needs of the country’s regions in a mutually compatible, synchronized, and coherent manner.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The justification of a TVET policy needs to be clear in relation to a country’s labor productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth, and be able to lead to informed decisions about making large public investments in a viable manner.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The lack of upstream donor coordination can lead to the duplication of efforts, as seen on the decision to switch skills standards to Victorian model.

Project Number: 41339-013
Project Name: Skills Enhancement Project
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Dialogue is necessary so that studies and policies can be structured to comply with the government’s requirements. Had this been done during the design stage, the urban public transport promotion policy proposed under the project would not have been rejected.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Air Quality Improvement– Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Better coordination with Australian Aid was an explicit part of the PRMAP from the beginning. Adjustments to ADB’s country strategy and the design of follow-on programs may be better informed if there is sharing of information during and after each intervention.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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It is problematic to use a country's overall position in the Doing Business report to monitor progress in improving the business environment and overall competitiveness. The report has been subject to criticism and methodological problems have been identified. Its usefulness for monitoring progress in similar programs lies more in monitoring the country's performance over time - particularly in indicators that are not sensitive to the representative case used by the World Bank team - rather than measuring progress against other economies.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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