Category Archives: Finance

BRIEFLY: “We can no longer step lightly around this shame”

Posted on 23 April 2010 by EFA Editor

Desmond Tutu and Dennis Van Roekel (president of the U.S. National Education Association) added their voices this week to the calls for a concerted global push to meet the Education for All goals by 2015, in an opinion article in … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children | 1 Comment

Giving education a bigger slice of the pie

Posted on 19 April 2010 by Samer Al-Samarrai

By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In this year’s Global Monitoring Report we highlighted the impressive increases in spending on primary education that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made since 2000. About two … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Finance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Poverty | 1 Comment

L’aide au développement en 2009 : un verre à moitié vide ou à moitié plein ?

Posted on 16 April 2010 by Elise Legault

De nouvelles données sur l’aide au développement ont été publiées par l’OCDE mercredi, donnant pour la première fois une idée de l’impact de la crise financière sur l’aide au développement. Alors comment les choses se présentent-elles? Premièrement, de quasi bonnes … Continue reading →

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Aid in 2009 : a glass half full or half empty?

Posted on 15 April 2010 by Elise Legault

By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report New aid figures were released on Wednesday by the OECD, shedding for the first time some light on the impact of the financial crisis on development assistance. So how … Continue reading →

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BRIEFLY: Let’s find new ways of funding inclusive education

Posted on 31 March 2010 by EFA Editor

“More innovative forms of financing – at both the domestic and the international level – must be found if Education for All is to become a reality,” argues Nicholas Burnett, former Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, … Continue reading →