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Education spending of countries and subnational areas by % of GDP ; Location % of GDP Year Source Marshall Islands 15.8 2019 [1] Cuba 11.5 2020 [2] Micronesia 10.5 2020 [2]
Singapore officially joined the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) on August 3, 1966 [1] after Singapore's independence from Malaysia. By 1975, Singapore received 14 total loans from the World Bank, 10 of these loans were used exclusively for infrastructure projects.
Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing ...
During World War II, many students in Singapore dropped out of school, causing a huge backlog of students after the war. [17] In 1947, the Ten Years Programme for Education Policy in the Colony of Singapore was formulated. [17] This called for a universal education system that would prepare for self-governance. [17]
"Inside the World Bank's new inequality indicator: The number of countries with high inequality". World Bank. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Global Peace Index Map of Gini data for 2007–2010; Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007. Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn, Claudio E ...
Tharman co-chaired a few bilateral committees to promote economic and trade relations between Singapore and other countries, including the Singapore-Liaoning Economic and Trade Council from 2004 to 2008, [50] and the High-Level Russia-Singapore Inter-Governmental Commission from 2011 to 2022.
The World Bank is an international financial institution that ... Turkey, Mexico, Singapore, Greece ... in fields such as human development (e.g. education ...
The World Bank classifies the world's economies into four groups, based on gross national income per capita: high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low income countries. Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states are all sub-groupings of developing countries.