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Gene B. Sperling

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Sep/Oct
2001
Toward Universal Education: Making a Promise, and Keeping Itpremium content icon
Gene B. Sperling

Easy access to quality education would bring developing countries everything from higher wages to lower infant mortality-but it would also require politically costly reforms. A global compact on education is needed to overcome the problem.
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November/December 2009 / 6, 88
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In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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