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Written by Our Senior Staff
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Monday, 22 April 2013 00:41 |
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2013 –At an unprecedented gathering of heads of global development agencies and ministers from 8 developing countries that account for nearly half the world’s 61 million out-of-school children, leaders called for urgent action to remove the barriers to achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG2) of universal primary education by 2015 and to close the gap between rich and poor in learning access and outcomes. An estimated 250 million children worldwide are unable to read and write. One in 5 have young people ages 15 to 24 have not completed primary school and lack the basic skills necessary for life and work.
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