December 8, 2000

World Bank Becomes a Player in Distance Education

By DAN CARNEVALE

It provides infrastructure in many countries that lack good telecommunications systems

While continuing such traditional missions as doling out loans for hydroelectric dams in developing countries, the World Bank has also quietly become a prominent force in distance education.

The bank has spent $20-million since 1997 to get its distance-education program

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