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Make secondary education universal

Nature volume 456, pages 572–573 (2008)Cite this article

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.

Next week, the representatives of the countries that fund the World Bank's programmes to promote universal education in developing regions will hold a planning meeting in Oslo. These leaders, and the developing countries they support, should make global secondary education a major objective.

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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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