This book provides an Asian perspective on the timely, urgent questions of how international education aid and development should move forward and what development roles Asia should play, especially following the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) in 2015. To answer these questions, four separate but interwoven parts, which analyze and anchor education MDGs and EFA policies and practices by means of diverse case studies of donor states, recipient states, and states with a dual and transitional role in Asia, are addressed. On the basis of the analyses, a clearer and concrete direction for effectively and sustainably extending international education aid and development beyond 2015 can be derived.

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"Ways to improve United States foreign educational aid" was the 1963-1964 Burton Lecture at Harvard University.

Poor countries cannot develop without improving their citizens' basic education and literacy, which is critical for promoting economic growth, reducing infant mortality, improving family health, and dampening population growth. Yet the average literacy rate among the 30 poorest countries is only 33%.