Education and Skills of Young Women

Maarten Klaveren and Kea Tijdens
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Maarten Klaveren: University of Amsterdam

Chapter 3 in Empowering Women in Work in Developing Countries, 2012, pp 55-76 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Millennium Development Goal 2 aims to achieve universal primary education (UPE); more specifically, it aims to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, are able to complete a full course of primary schooling. The UN Development Group Task Force on the MDGs writes: “Since 2000, considerable progress has been made toward achieving UPE. Some of the world’s poorest countries have dramatically increased enrolment, narrowed gender gaps and extended opportunities for disadvantaged groups [….] The deficit in Sub-Saharan Africa remains large with over 30 million children still denied a primary education”; but it adds: “Progress, however, has not been universal […] many children from marginalized social and economic groups do not have access to primary schooling. Inequalities, disparities and combined forms of exclusion persist and are often hidden” (UNDG 2010b, 9–10). This chapter details the achievements in young women’s education and skills in the 14 DFL countries and the factors that contribute to improvement.

Keywords: Secondary Education; Primary Education; Tertiary Education; Enrolment Rate; Universal Primary Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137206527_3

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