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Author: World Bank

World Bank Symposium: Assessment for Global Learning

2013

This session highlighted the need for a clear vision and strategy on the part of the international development community if we are to overcome the global “learning crisis”. This vision must place learning at the core of the post-2015 development agenda – as a tool that contributes to personal, social, and economic development. Many developing countries currently lack the vision and leadership required to overcome the learning crisis. If action is not taken, the situation will only worsen.
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