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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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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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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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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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, ... More »

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