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The results of most internationally comparable mathematics, reading, and science exams for
primary
and secondary students reveal a considerable gap not only between advanced and developing countries, but also across the developing world.
The SDGs call for, among other things, ending extreme poverty and hunger, instituting universal health coverage, and universal
primary
and upper secondary education by 2030.
Hopkins was referring to the groundbreaking $50 billion Lend-Lease Act, which became the
primary
means by which the US provided military aid to foreign countries during World War II.
When this happens, otherwise low-salience issues, such as security or foreign policy, can become the electorate’s
primary
concern.
But, thanks to their school and teacher, they are able to keep pace with their peers in the mainstream
primary
school that they attend.
As many as 150 million children live with a disability; in low- and lower-middle-income countries, around 40% are out of school at
primary
level (rising to 55% at lower secondary level).
For example, recent research by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), found that less than 5% of children with disabilities in 51 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are enrolled in
primary
school.
In the last 10 years, the Bank was the largest external financier of
primary
education, basic health care, HIV/AIDS programs, and programs aimed at protecting the environment and biodiversity.
In the meantime, Greece’s regulatory authorities would be keeping a watchful eye over commercial lending practices, while a debt brake would prevent our government from indulging in old, bad habits, ensuring that our state never again slips into
primary
deficits.
Kosovo is, first of all, a European problem, and the EU has the
primary
responsibility to turn it into a success story.
This year should have been the Year of the Child – the deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of providing all children with
primary
education.
More than 80% of all
primary
energy in the world comes from coal, oil, and gas.
The goal of law, unlike that of science, is not to determine truth; its
primary
aim is to minimize conflict.
Indeed, it is one of the
primary
reasons why eradicable infectious diseases persist today.
No, this time, commodity resources are the
primary
constraint, rather than a secondary problem, as in the past.
My parents were illiterate, and none of my sisters attended school beyond the
primary
level.
Improving the education system of a country with more than 16 million
primary
and secondary school students – more than the combined population of 20 European Union member states – poses considerable fiscal challenges.
From the 2002-03 academic year to 2012-13, gross schooling rates (which includes students whose age exceeds or falls short of the official age group) increased from 96.5% to 107.6% in
primary
education; 80.8% to 96.8% in secondary education; and 35.8% to 92.1% in higher education.
In the 2002-03 school year, there were 28 students per teacher in
primary
education and 18 in secondary schools; by 2012-13, this had fallen to 20 and 16, respectively.
Soviet central planning could not secure a proper return on those loans - and indeed on all investment, which was a
primary
reason for the USSR’s collapse.
Sadly, rather than providing hope to the younger generation of Egyptians who protested in Tahrir Square six years ago, Sisi has stifled individual initiative and made the army the
primary
actor in the economy.
And teacher absenteeism, a major aspect of corruption in education, can lead to direct losses of up to a quarter of a country’s public spending on
primary
education.
This body of work challenges the traditional focus on the individual’s inner nature, dispositions, and personality traits as the
primary
– and often the sole – factors in understanding human failings.
While there have been notable advances in girls’ education and health, women across the region remain subject to traditional attitudes that define their
primary
role as being in the home.
The hope is that the summit, which United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend, will improve the world’s chances of meeting the goal, featured in the upcoming post-2015 development agenda, that every child have access to pre-primary, primary, and secondary education by 2030.
In non-fragile, low-income countries, aid for
primary
education now stands at just $23 per child annually – barely enough to buy two textbooks – down 8% from a decade ago.
Annual aid for
primary
education amounts to just $11 per child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Togo, and Guinea; $10 per child in the Central African Republic and Madagascar; $5 per child in Chad; and a miniscule $4 per child in Nigeria, the country with the largest out-of-school population.
Indeed, ensuring universal access to pre-primary, primary, and secondary school in low-income and lower-middle-income countries will cost roughly $210 billion by 2020 – a figure that does not fall by much, even according to the most optimistic estimates.
For example, an analysis of Chinese media by Harvard University’s Alastair Iain Johnston concludes that, “Instead of a focus on anti-foreign ‘hostile forces,’ Xi’s
primary
ideological message is the ‘great revival of the Chinese nation.’”
The debate in the US, long Egypt’s
primary
ally and donor, did not center on strengthening Egypt’s embattled institutions, but focused instead on how to ease the military out of power by withholding aid.
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