Education and Development in the Context of Globalization (Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World) - Hardcover

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Over a decade after the World Conference on Education for All (WCEA) held in Jomtien, Thailand, March 1990, as well as the goals set a decade later in Dakar at the World Forum of Education for All (EFA) in April 2000, the world still has 72 million out-of-school children, the majority of them (57%) are girls mostly living in rural areas and city slums. Likewise, there are 774 million adults deprived of their human rights to achieving basic literacy skills, the majority of them women of the poorest segment of the world community living also in rural areas and city slums. This book details the progress, shortcomings and future challenges of EFA during the period 2000-2007.

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