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Poorest people, poorest education

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Thu, 10/18/2012 - 10:09 -- Andrew Shepherd
As 2015 approaches, progress in education is getting a lot of attention. Many countries have seen promising results from investment in universal primary education, and many more girls are now enrolling in school. From a chronic poverty perspective, however, this is not enough: there are nearly half a billion chronically poor people, and many of them are children.

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