The yawning gap in education within developing countries

Global public spending on education rose from a median 4.5% of GDP in 1999 to 4.9% in 2006, according to a new report by UNESCO, the UN's education agency. Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Nov. 26, 2008

This chart showing "School Years" -- from the Economist's "Daily chart" section -- is easy to read and designed in a clear and compelling way. To simply show information from a new UNESCO report, it is effective. However, there is little context here, which is much needed to make the chart more meaningful. The writer includes a couple of conclusions drawn from the chart's stats, but experts and/or other sources need to be brought in to give more insight into what these numbers could mean.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 26, 2008

An excellent, alternative way at looking at education levels. I would love to read an in-depth analysis of what some of these differences mean (hinted at in the Bangladesh-Nicaragua comparison).

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 25, 2008

Not much to review here, but relevant and helpful when reading on the same topic.

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Nov. 27, 2008

It's statictics

Until governments have an incindive such as mass media coverage, financial money that they can put half in their pocket, and half to the people, nothing will ever get done.

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