Research On The Educational Aid Of World Bank:Feature, Cause, And Influence

With the development of globalization, countries in the world become more and more dependent on international organizations to solve problems in their economy, society, security, and the education as well. Based on the targets and fields that they undertake, international organizations have a significant influence on the world education. The World Bank, as one of the three world economic organizations, fulfils its economic functions. Besides, it has become the biggest source of the funds providing for the education development of countries in the world. The World Bank, with its educational aid which is different from other international educational organizations has played an important part in the world education and played an irreplaceable and unique role in the process of educational development.With the rapid development of China's economy and the rising international influence of China, international development and cooperation have gradually become the crucial area which China pays more attention to. For the relationship between China's education and World Bank, the first project that China applied for loan from World Bank is education loan project in1981after China restored its lawful seat in1980. In1999, China graduated from the poor countries which International Development Association of The World Bank targeted at, and was no longer the recipient country of "soft loan" from World Bank. Not only that, in December2007, six countries including China first announced to make donation to World Bank. Therefore, under new situation, the most important part of the relationship between China and World Bank begins to be knowledge learning rather than financial aid. The two parties should establish a new cooperative relationship which is in conformity with features of the times. Moreover, China should make a deep and systematic understanding and research of the idea and behavior of the World Bank. Based on education, with a global background, the research makes an in-depth and systematic survey and research on the relationship between World Bank and educational development by taking the educational aid of World Bank as the object,"analysis of features of educational aid" as the clue,"the discussion about causes of educational aid's features" as the carrier, and "the influence and enlightenment of educational aid on global education" as the orientation.The thesis is divided into five parts. Chapter one is the introduction which mainly introduces the research background and significance of the thesis, the research situation at home and abroad, definition of concept, research method, etc. Chapter two is about the analysis of features of World Bank's educational aid, and elaborates the features from four aspects:theoretic motivation, goal orientation, implementation method and features of the times. Chapter three is the discussion about the contributing factor of features of World Bank's educational aid and probes into the contributing factor from the "capability" World Bank has,"power" World Bank possesses, and the "pressure" World Bank suffers from. Chapter four is about the influence and enlightenment of World Bank's educational aid which is from the angles of World Band itself, critic (i.e. the third party) and recipient nations. Chapter five is the part of the conclusion and thinking, summarizes the research result of the thesis and ponders over the influence of educational aid.