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Make secondary education universal

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The time is right to push global learning beyond primary-school level, says Joel E. Cohen. The benefits could include a dramatically smaller increase in world population by 2050.

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Figure 1: Population estimates.
Figure 2: Education and children.

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  1. Joel E. Cohen is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10065, USA, and professor of populations at Columbia University in New York. cohen@rockefeller.edu ,

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