Towards universal primary education : investments, incentives, and institutions /
The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015--income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelter-while promoting gender equality education hea...
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London :
Sterling, Va. : Earthscan,
2005.
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| Series: | UN Millennium Project 2005.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=130551 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Task force members; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Part 1: Setting the stage; Chapter 1: The task force's contribution; Chapter 2: Education and society: multiple benefits, unrealized potential; Chapter 3: The Goals and the history of goal-setting in education; Chapter 4: Trends in primary education and gender parity; Part 2: Education systems in developing countries: income, institutions, and incentives; Chapter 5: Education systems in developing countries.