Billions in U.S. dollars needed to meet millennium education goals

The British Department for International Development (DFID) says the world will need US$110 billion to meet the United Nations target of getting all children into primary school by 2015. The department in a report published in its quarterly magazine Development, said the UN has a responsibility to these children, and pointed out that to attain this key Millennium Development Goal (MDG), the rich countries would need to provide US$11 billion in new aid every year for a decade. The magazine said at the current rate of progress, 75 countries—mainly in sub-Saharan Africa—would not achieve the goal. Read the article at allAfrica.com.