Developing a Supportive Policy Environment
Suitable economic, trade, labour, employment and health policies
are called for along with educational reform in the World Declaration.
While educational reform was dealt with in several thematic roundtables
and in the illustrative country plans of Morocco, Nigeria, China, the
Philippines and Jordan, broader social and economic policies and their attendant
relationship to education policies were not as vigorously discussed at the
roundtables.
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Supportive policies in the social, cultural, and economic
sectors are required in order to realize the full provision and utilization of
basic education for individual and societal improvement.
World Declaration |
Although the roundtables on improving primary education and
financing education for all discussed the need to protect the social sectors
from economic adjustment programmes, there was little consensus reached on
specific measures to relieve the debt burden. However, as a result of the
debate, the final text of the World Declaration calls greater
attention to the undue burden of structural adjustment policies on overall
financial requirements for achieving Education for
All.
