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Access to Education

Netaid, Aug 26, 2005

Just to put things in perspective: first, "Education is arguably the key to ending extreme poverty but more than 100 million children worldwide are not in school." And second, "$5.6 billion per year (is) required to achieve universal primary education by 2015." By contrast, worldwide military spending is currently roughly $960 billion. We live in an era of dubious morality. Via education-india.

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