Education : the way forward
Khandker, Shahidur R.
With just over five years remaining until the deadline for reaching the 2015 United Nation (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the state of education in the world is at a turning point. While millions more children are in school today than when the goals were set in 2000, access to education, and learning that will make a difference in their lives, is still out of reach for too many young people. Now is a critical time to sustain progress in education, one of the smartest economic and human development investments that any country can make. That's why support for education, and primary education in particular, has been one of major priorities over the past decade for the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the world's poorest countries. IDA is one of the largest sources of education assistance for low-income countries, providing over US$10.2 billion in support to 112 countries since 2000. About half of IDA education funds support primary education, and therefore the MDGs of helping countries achieve universal primary completion and eliminate gender disparities in education by 2015.
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