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by: Ramahatra Rakotomalala, Barbara Bruns, Alain Mingat
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Price: $22.00 *Geographic discounts available!
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English; Mixed Media; 253 pages; 7x10
Published August 11, 2003 by World Bank
ISBN: 978-0-8213-5345-5; SKU: 15345
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One hundred and eighty-nine countries have committed themselves to
eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at eradicating extreme
poverty and improving the welfare of their peoples by the year 2015.
The second of the goals is: 'Achieve universal primary
education,' with the specific target of ensuring that, by 2015,
boys and girls everywhere will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling.
This book assesses whether the Millennium Goals can be met.
Specifically it asks:
- Where do we stand today in relation to the target of universal
primary completion?
- Is universal primary completion achievable by 2015?
- If so, what would be required to achieve it, both in terms of
education policy reform and incremental domestic and international
financing?
In a globally integrated and highly competitive world economy, no
country can any longer consider primary schooling a terminal level of
education for its labor force, but increasing the share of children who
do complete primary school is the essential first step. In a borderless
world, where the gulf between the educated, empowered rich and the
stagnating and powerless poor increasingly poses threats to all, the
achievement of universal primary completion is of global interest. Few
global goals have been as consistently and deeply supported as the
notion that every child in every country should have the chance to
complete primary school. Perhaps it is time to make it a reality.
The volume includes CD-ROM containing a 'hands-on' version
of the simulation model developed by the authors and all of the
background data used.
- Shipping Weight: 1.24 lbs (0.56 kgs)
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