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Served for two years as a teacher in rural Malawi; and one year as a research fellow at the Institute of Education at Makerere University; then as a graduate student at the University of Chicago; for two years as consultant to the United States federal government on problems of adolescence; for more than fifteen years as a staff member of the World Bank; as president of the Comparative and International Education Society; as a lecturer in education at the American University and at the University of Maryland; as a member of the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; on behalf of the World Bank as an advisor to senior education officials in many different countries and to other international institutions with programmes in education. Currently he is the chief of the Human Resources and Social Policy Division serving countries in the Middle East and North Africa region and the Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank.

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Heyneman, S.P. Economics of education: Disappointments and potential. Prospects 25, 557–583 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02334136

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