Education for All Action Plan

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The World Bank's proposed action plan on achieving the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 calls for a new development compact. The idea is that governments would demonstrate their commitment to education through efforts to radically transform their education systems, and external partners would provide financial and technical support in a transparent, predictable, and flexible manner. The plan also calls for "fast-tracking" some 10 countries for quick and incremental support.

The need for the plan was prompted by new calculations showing that 88...