The Central Role of Education in the Millennium Development Goals
The set of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) formulated in 2000 with targets for 2015 crystallized the growing consensus which emerged during the 1990s, namely, that poverty reduction and the provision of basic social services need to be at the centre of development policy.
In the current global context, it is crucial to revitalize the problem of basic education on political agendas, by emphasizing the strong linkages between primary education – and other components of basic education – and the other MDGs.