Education, Skills, Sustainability and Growth: Complex Relations

  • Kenneth King
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For many developing countries since the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien in 1990, and more especially since the Dakar World Forum on Education in 2000, and the elaboration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) later that same year, there has been an international concern to assist their reaching the six Dakar Goals. While there has been some very thorough work on analysing progress towards these Dakar Goals (e.g. the Education for All Global Monitoring Reports—EFA-GMR), there has been much less attention to the sustainability of these externally-assisted achievements. Will countries that have been assisted to reach universal primary education (UPE) be able to sustain this when development assistance is terminated? It is not therefore just a question of whether the world is on track to reach the Dakar Goals, but whether individual countries have an economic and political environment that will continue to secure them.

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Sustainable Development Basic Education Poverty Reduction United Nations Educational Universal Primary Education 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kenneth King
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  1. 1.Centre of African StudiesUniversity of EdinburghUnited Kingdom

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