WORKING PAPERS
A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education - Working Paper 97
August 28, 2006
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seek to ensure that all children complete primary school by 2015. But school completion rates don't tell us how much--or how little--the kids actually learn. This new working paper co-authored by CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett shows that even in cou...