Education could be “the greatest gift” to poor countries

During the year marking the 200th anniversary of Britain voting to end the slave trade, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said there could be no better commemoration than to abolish all child labor, and ensure that all young children go to school. In his opinion piece in The Guardian January 4, he calls on every government to give every child access to schooling. He says the cost would not be prohibitive — an extra US$10 billion a year by 2010. That’s about 2 pence (a little more than two cents) a day for each person in the richest nations, he said. Read his piece at The Guardian website.