
Nearly 70 million children around the world are not getting an education despite much progress in the past 10 years, and Haiti and Somalia are the two worst countries in which to be a school-age child, a report released on Monday said.
The global financial crisis has forced poor countries to cut their education budgets by $4.6 billion a year at a time when intensified efforts are needed to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of ensuring a primary school education for every child in the world by 2015, it says.
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