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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals
In light of the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, Nonresident Senior Fellow Raj Desai gives reasons why many countries have been slow to make progress toward the 2015 targets. He states...
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It’s Time for an Education Breakthrough: Coming Together for the 2015 and the...
The stars of the global development galaxy infrequently align to provide the education sector with an opportunity to advance progress for girls and boys around the world. However, there is currently a...
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Rethinking Global Development Goals
Governments around the world are grappling to find goals that can set a course for our planet’s shared long-term prosperity. They aim to do so before 2015, the expiration date for the Millennium...
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A Preview of the 2012 UN General Assembly Meetings
With the deadly attacks on the U.S. embassy in Libya and mounting violence in Syria as a backdrop, the United Nations General Assembly has convened its 67th general session this week. World leaders...
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Impacts of Malaria Interventions and their Potential Additional Humanitarian...
INTRODUCTIONOver the past decade, the focused attention of African nations, the United States, U.N. agencies and other multilateral partners has brought significant progress toward achievement of the...
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“Getting to Zero” on Child Mortality
What child survival goals should be included in a global vision of “getting to zero” on extreme poverty? This question will be increasingly debated as the world maps out a framework to succeed the...
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New Momentum for Global Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
As the U.S. public anxiously monitors the impending fiscal cliff, good things are quietly happening in the field of global education. Last week, at the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) meeting...
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Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Event InformationDecember 5, 201212:30 PM - 5:30 PM ESTFalk AuditoriumBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20036Register for the EventAs the 2015 expiration date for the...
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A Game-Changer for Global Education
Recently at the Brookings Center for Universal Education (CUE), we were joined by colleagues from around the world in a two-day conference to discuss the status of global education and strategies for...
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Mumbai Monolith Epitomises Need for Post-2015 Agenda to Tackle Inequality
If you want a glimpse across the yawning chasm that separates the world's super rich from the ultra poor, there's no better place than Mumbai's Altamount Road.Look up and you'll see Antilla, the...
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A Guide to the Post-2015 Debates for the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been a remarkable global political success. As targets established in 2000 to cut extreme poverty in its many forms in half by 2015, the MDGs have focused...
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The (Tangled) Road Map to September's U.N. General Assembly Meeting on the...
Preliminary results from a global survey asking people to choose the most important issues for a better world reveals education is at the very top of the list. While the survey’s online response to...
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The United States and Global Development: An Approach in Transition
Event InformationFebruary 19, 20132:00 PM - 3:30 PM ESTSaul/Zilkha RoomsBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036As President Barack Obama begins his second term, the U.S....
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Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development Goals Have Accomplished
For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals -- a set of time-bound targets agreed on by heads of state in 2000 -- have unified, galvanized, and expanded efforts to help the world's poorest...
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The Declaration of the Millennium Development Goals
More than a decade after the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ample confusion persists regarding their genesis. In particular, many people misunderstand the relationship...
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Toward Consensus on a Goal for Education within the Post-2015 Development...
Last week, in two separate regional consultations (in Africa and in Asia) on education in the post-2015 agenda, a wide range of representatives focused on the importance of an equitable learning agenda...
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The Learning Metrics Task Force Proposes Six Domains of Measurement for...
From Kenya to India to the United States, world leaders are realizing the global learning crisis that threatens to rob millions of children of the fundamental human right to education, and the...
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Dakar Consensus: Equitable, Quality Learning for All
More than 120 education stakeholders from civil society, youth, private sector, foundations, academics, governments and the United Nations met last week in Dakar, Senegal to review global education...
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Welcome to Education + Development
Welcome to Education + Development, a new blog by the Center for Universal Education. Our blog will cover issues on global education, learning and international development, with a particular focus on...
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Civil Society Support from the Global South for an Equitable Learning Agenda
Following the final meeting of the U.N. secretary general’s High-Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, Indonesia from March 25-27, panel members are now...
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