The Oxfam Education Report
This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform. It demonstrates that universal free good-quality primary education is affordable and possible if governments all over the world change their priorities. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in education as a development issue, it is clear and accessible with many diagrams and statistics.
Published: 2000
Pages: 240
eBook: 9780855988081
Paperback: 9780855984281
| Acknowledgements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| 1. Education and human development | |||
| The 2015 targets: a progress report | |||
| Education and health | |||
| Education and income-poverty | |||
| Education and globalisation | |||
| Education, democracy, and empowerment | |||
| 2. Education for all: promises and progress | |||
| The education targets | |||
| The quantitative targets | |||
| The quality of education | |||
| 3. Inequalities in education | |||
| North-South inequalities | |||
| Inequalities between developing countries | |||
| National inequalities in education | |||
| 4. National barriers to basic education | |||
| Constraints on poor households | |||
| Public investment in education | |||
| Finacial decentralisation and privatisation | |||
| 5. International co-operation: the record since Jomtien | |||
| The record on aid | |||
| The debt crisis as a barrier to education for all | |||
| Structural adjustment and the role of the IMF in poor countries | |||
| Lessons from the East Asia crisis | |||
| 6. Partnership for change | |||
| State action for universal primary education | |||
| States and non-government organisations | |||
| Partnerships in action: five case studies | |||
| 7. An agenda for action | |||
| From Jomtien to Dakar | |||
| Action at the national level International action | |||
| Towards a global initiative | |||
| Appendix 1 The education Performance Index (EPI) | |||
| Appendix 2 List of background papers | |||
| Notes | |||
| Index |
Kevin Watkins
Keven Walkins is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College of the University of Oxford. He has participated on the World Economic Forum as a discussion leader on the IdeasLab on the Global Redesign Initiative (Values and People) in 2010. In addition, he is a board member of the Center for Global Development, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre and the Journal of International Development. He also has a blog on The Guardian.
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