The global financial crisis sweeping through Wall Street and the European banking sector will touch the lives of the world’s most vulnerable, pushing millions into deeper poverty and leading to the deaths of thousands of children.

Read more in the GMR team’s presentation: “The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – bankable pledge or sub-prime asset?” by Kevin Watkins and Patrick Montjourides.

• The full presentation (ppt)
• UNESCO Press release
• Presentation to UNESCO’s Executive Board – “Education beyond the G20”

Selection of press coverage:

• A Surge in Homeless Children Tests School Aid Programs
  NYTimes.com, USA - 5 Sept 2009
• China schools offer incentive to migrants
  FT, UK - 2 Sept 2009
• Education and the economic crisis (PDF)
  IIEP Newsletter, Vol XXVII, N° 2, May-August 2009
• The Philippines Face Classroom Shortage
  Ny Times - 24 Aug 2009
• Develoment: Soaring Population May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals
  IPS - 17 Aug 2009
• The World Economic and Financial Crisis: What Will It Mean for Gender Equality?
  Speech by Inés Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM - 13 July 2009
• Rwanda: Effects of Global Financial Crisis on Poor Countries
  AllAfrica.com - 13 May 2009
• Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education?
  The Guardian - 28 Apr 2009
• Botswana: Nurture Africa Through Hard Times, Says Bank Governor
  AllAfrica.com - 27 Mar 2009
• Development Aid at its highest level ever in 2008
  OECD - 30/03/2009
• The Rich Countries’ Faltering “United Front”
  LA Progressive - 23/03/2009
• It’s enough to make you want to blog
  The GEG blog - 17/03/2009
• India's GDP growth to stabilize around 7%
  The Times of India - 16/03/2009
• On living with less, from 3 points of view
  International Herald Tribune - 13/03/2009
• Forgotten victims of the global downturn
  Financial Times - 10/03/2009
• World's poor suffering most in the credit crunch
  The Guardian - 05/03/2009