Abstract
South Asia, with a quarter of the world’s population, has at least a quarter of the world’s children who should be in primary school but are not. As a region, South Asia will almost certainly fall short of achieving the second EFA goal by 2015: full access to, and completion of, primary education. What can be done now to improve the prospects of achieving the goal as soon after 2015 as possible and to lay a solid foundation for doing so?
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The Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transition and Equity (CREATE) postulated various “zones of exclusion”, corresponding to different forms of exclusion from education and categories of children affected by clusters of exclusionary factors (Lewis 2007).
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Ahmed, M., Govinda, R. Introduction. Prospects 40, 321–335 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-010-9165-3
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