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Achieving universal primary education by 2015 : a chance for every child

Rakotomalala, Ramahatra, Mingat, Alain, Bruns, Barbara

2003

Overview

A number of countries committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at eradicating extreme poverty, and improving the welfare of people by the year 2015. The book assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015. The study focuses on the largest low-income countries that are furthest from the goal, home to about seventy five percent of the children out of school globally. By analyzing education policies, and financing patterns in relatively high-performing countries, the study identifies a new policy, and financing framework for faster global progress in primary education. The authors use a simulation model to show how adoption of this framework, could accelerate progress in low-income countries, currently at risk of not reaching the education MDG. The study however, makes it clear that worldwide attainment of universal primary education by 2015, will necessitate an even stronger combination of political will, deep and sustained reform, faster dissemination of best practices, and intensified financial effort than has been marshaled to date.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: ABSOLUTE POVERTY / Access to Education / ACHIEVEMENT / ADULT LITERACY / BASIC EDUCATION / CAPACITY BUILDING / Change Strategies / CHILDHOOD CARE / CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES / CLASS SIZE / COMMUNITY SCHOOLS / COMPULSORY PRIMARY EDUCATION / CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK / CONTINUING EDUCATION / Costs / COUNTRY CONTEXT / COUNTRY LEVEL / DATA COLLECTION / DATA SOURCES / Delivery Systems / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPING COUNTRY / Developing Nations / DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE / DEVELOPMENT GOALS / DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN / DONOR COMMUNITY / DONOR FINANCE / Donors / DROPOUT RATES / ECONOMIC GROWTH / EDUCATING GIRLS / Education / Education and state / EDUCATION POLICY / EDUCATION SYSTEM / EDUCATION SYSTEMS / Education, Elementary -- Aims and objectives -- Congresses / Education, Primary / EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT / Educational assistance / EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT / Educational Change / Educational costs / Educational equalization -- Congresses / Educational evaluation / EDUCATIONAL FINANCING / Educational forecasting / Educational Improvement / Educational models / Educational Objectives / EDUCATIONAL POLICY / EDUCATIONAL REFORM / Educational strategies / ENROLLMENT / EQUAL ACCESS / Equal Education / EQUITABLE ACCESS / EQUITY IN EDUCATION / ETHNIC MINORITIES / EXTERNAL FUNDING / EXTERNAL SUPPORT / FINANCIAL SUPPORT / GENDER DISPARITIES / GENDER EQUALITY / GENDER GAP / GER / GIRLS / GLOBAL GOALS / GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS / GROSS ENROLLMENT / GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIO / GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIOS / INCOME COUNTRIES / LEARNING / LEARNING NEEDS / LEARNING OUTCOMES / LEVELS OF EDUCATION / LIFE SKILLS / LIFE SKILLS PROGRAMS / LITERATURE / Low Income Groups / LOW-INCOME ECONOMIES / MACROECONOMIC POLICIES / MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOMES / NATIONAL EDUCATION / NATIONAL INCOME / NER / NET ENROLLMENT / NET ENROLLMENT RATIO / NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS / NUMERACY / NUTRITION / OPPORTUNITY COSTS / ORPHANS / Policy Analysis / POLICY MEASURES / POLICY OPTIONS / POLICY REFORM / POLITICAL POWER / POVERTY REDUCTION / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / PRIMARY EDUCATION / PRIMARY SCHOOL / PRIMARY SCHOOL ACCESS / PRIMARY SCHOOLING / Public Policy / PUBLIC PRIMARY / PUBLIC RESOURCES / PUBLIC SECTOR / REAL TERMS / RECURRENT COSTS / REPETITION / REPETITION RATE / REPETITION RATES / SCHOOL ATTENDANCE / SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION / SCHOOLING / SCHOOLING ATTAINMENT / SCHOOLS / SECONDARY EDUCATION / SERVICE DELIVERY / Simulation / SIMULATION METHODS / STIPENDS / TEACHER / TEACHER SALARIES / TEACHERS / TEAM MEMBERS / United Nations Millennium Development Goals / Universal education / UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION EDUCATION FOR ALL / Young Children
• ISBN: 9780821353455, 0821353454