Education Aid Eludes Countries That Need It Most
Even as overall aid increases, the share of that money going to education has stagnated — leaving least developed countries in the lurch.
In the West African country of Burkina Faso, nearly 50 percent of children do not attend school. The reported cost of getting them there would be close to $182 million, and yet the small, francophone country received only $17 million in education aid in 2012.
This comes from released this week by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring
