Owed an education Some countries spend more on servicing their debts than on educating their children - sending development into reverse.
Education Now calls for targeted debt relief to release resources for schools.
Dave Dalton explains why the time is ripe Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, got the chance of an education. The decisions of educated men in positions of power can affect whether hundreds of millions of children of school age get the chance of an education - any education. The following case studies are from Tanzania, but similar examples could be found in most developing countries. Uneducated, her chances of escaping a life of poverty are slim. She lives in Tanzania.