August 19, 2012
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1 Dollar Poverty – Living in Haiti on $1 per day for 28 days – YouTube.
August 16, 2012
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the report also urges African governments to draw a sharper distinction between productive foreign investment in agriculture and what Mr. Annan and his co-panelist and celebrity activist, Bob Geldof, described as speculative land grabs. The report warns that failure to prioritize smallholder agriculture will leave millions of Africans trapped in a cycle of poverty and […]
August 16, 2012
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Early Childhood Development: A Chinese National Priority and Global Concern for 2015 | Brookings Institution. As the country with the largest population in the world, 100 million children under the age of six in China stand to benefit from increased access to high quality early childhood education.
August 16, 2012
Categories: Competitiveness, Report On Education, Strategies
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For instance, in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay, children of parents in the top socioeconomic quartile achieved mathematics scores that are 25 to 30 percent higher than those in the poorest quartile. A recent study in Honduras demonstrated that nearly 30 percent of young people could not read a single word of connected text after two […]
August 16, 2012
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It’s Time for a Development Wake-up Call: Sad News for Global Education and the Millennium Development Goals | Brookings Institution. According to the data, 61 million children of primary school age were not in school in 2010. At first glance, this seems like an improvement over the 67 million kids reported out of school in […]