The Post-2015 Development Agenda: time to learn and connect

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: time to learn and connect
Alicia Mitchell, eLearning Africa News Portal, January 28, 2013
Though rates have varied a lot, access to education in Africa has been improving. But it has not proven to be a panacea. "The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has found that over half of the global extremely poor live in a household where the head does, in fact, have some degree of education. This means that education in and of itself is not currently a guaranteed path out of poverty." Of course, bobody should have presented it as such; education is a necessary but not sufficient condition. More...