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South African government’s GBV plans may disappoint

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SOUTH AFRICA

Although President Cyril Ramaphosa has publicly committed to increase funding to combat what he calls South Africa’s “second pandemic”, there is a lack of transparency in how the…

Pandemic will have severe impact on Mexican education

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MEXICO

It also appears not to have assessed the effectiveness of its home-learning strategy, established after schools were closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Without this…

Canberra spends more to reduce Indigenous inequalities

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AUSTRALIA

The government admitted that earlier efforts to improve Indigenous livelihoods had been an “enormous failure”, with many goals set out in the Closing the Gap programme still…

Prospects for sustainable development goals in 2021

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PROSPECTS 2021

Before the onset of COVID-19, no country was on track for achieving all 17 SDGs, including high income countries. In the wake of the pandemic, the challenges are significantly…

China's Five-Year Plan replaces growth with welfare

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CHINA

Welfare objectives in China's 13th Five-Year Plan.

Mexican youth policies will not improve prospects

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MEXICO

Youth policies.

Growth may accelerate under new Slovak government

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SLOVAKIA

The governing coalition has a comfortable parliamentary majority, but faces gathering concerns over Prime Minister Robert Fico's health, teachers' protests over wages and…

Backlash weakens US education reform push

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UNITED STATES

Political backlash against testing in US education policy.

Basic income in Europe will face increasing scrutiny

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EUROPE

Universal basic income in Europe.

Growing gender parity will aid global growth prospects

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INTERNATIONAL

Gender parity benefits and initiatives.