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Development strategies invariably include education and human capital improvement as important components. These tend to focus on quantitative goals, such as achieving certain levels of educational enrolment or attainment. Thus, the two Millennium Development Goals that refer to education – universal primary education and gender parity by 2015 – are solely phrased in terms of educational quantity (United Nations 2009). Similarly, while UNESCO’s Education for All initiative mentions quality, its explicit goals mostly focus on school quantity (UNESCO 2008).
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