The Global Partnership in the NewsG8/G20 Summits Policy Brief. Canada, June 2010. Basic EducationJanuary 31, 2010
FTI in the News
Washington, DC -- (InterAction.org Newsletter) -- January 2010 -- To leverage President Obama’s commitment to erase the global primary education gap by 2015, the United States should scale up its investment in international education aid, and improve aid effectiveness by leading a transformation and re-launch of the Fast Track Initiative (FTI) (www.education-fast-track.org) as an independent, democratic and fully resourced global financing mechanism for Education for All (EFA). The IMF needs to reform its pro-cyclical macroeconomic policies,1 which prevent sufficient developing country investments in education systems. In line with this strategy, we ask the United States to urge G8/G20 leaders in Canada to adopt the following recommendations. |
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