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The Fast Track Versus The Global Fund

Earlier this week former British prime minister Gordon Brown emerged from hibernation to lobby for a bold new plan to push education up the global agenda. The world has made progress in recent years but, Mr Brown reports, 68 million kids still get no education. Worse, he warns, cuts to aid budgets mean that we […]

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Not just the new should have prizes

They are getting used to making acceptance speeches at Pratham, India’s largest nonprofit working to help the 200 million children in the country who cannot read. In the past twelve months Pratham has picked up the Gold EMPI-Indian Express Indian Innovation Award and was made CNN-IBN Indian of the year in 2009, and now it […]