1. Innovation and Action in Funding Girls\' Education
- Author:
- Xanthe Ackerman
- Publication Date:
- 03-2015
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Brookings Institution
- Abstract:
- Many more girls are going to school than ever before, thanks in large part to the Education for All movement (EFA),14 the Millennium Development Goals and international and national programs that have increased access to school for all children. Legislation to make primary education free of charge in many African and Asian countries has greatly contributed to the decrease in the number of primary-school-age girls who are out of school, even as the population of schoolage children has continued to increase. At the primary level, the share of girls in the out-of-school population dropped from 58 percent in 2000 to 53 percent in 2012.15
- Topic:
- Development
- Political Geography:
- Africa