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This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform. It demonstrates that universal free good-quality primary education is affordable and possible if governments all over the world change their priorities. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in education as a development issue, it is clear and accessible with many diagrams and statistics.
REVIEWS
In a closely argued report... Oxfam make a compelling case for the inextricable link between education and poverty reduction... and the catastrophic consequences if the UN's target of universal primary education by 2015 is missed. The Guardian
(This book) is the single most important blueprint for change that Oxfam has produced, going to the heart of a critical development issue... an excellent piece of work. Financial Times
...no school or college library with even one intelligent and radical-minded 17-year-old reader should be without it. ...it is eminently readable in a dip-in kind of way. It is an inexhaustible well of information not only on education, but on international debt, taxation policies, post-colonialism, foreign aid, gender-equality, global free trade - all the issues that keep academic classes busy and debating societies buzzing. ...Warmly recommended. School Librarian, Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn 2001
AUTHOR BIOG
Kevin Watkins was Oxfam GB's Senior Adviser on Finance and Social Policy.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Education and human development
The 2015 targets: a progress report
Education and health
Education and income-poverty
Education and globalisation
Education, democracy, and empowerment
2. Education for all: promises and progress
The education targets
The quantitative targets
The quality of education
3. Inequalities in education
North-South inequalities
Inequalities between developing countries
National inequalities in education
4. National barriers to basic education
Constraints on poor households
Public investment in education
Finacial decentralisation and privatisation
5. International co-operation: the record since Jomtien
The record on aid
The debt crisis as a barrier to education for all
Structural adjustment and the role of the IMF in poor countries
Lessons from the East Asia crisis
6. Partnership for change
State action for universal primary education
States and non-government organisations
Partnerships in action: five case studies
7. An agenda for action
From Jomtien to Dakar
Action at the national level International action
Towards a global initiative
Appendix 1 The education Performance Index (EPI)
Appendix 2 List of background papers
Notes
Index
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