文档介绍：In: King, K. and Buchert, L. (Eds.). 1999, Changing international aid to education: global patterns and national context. (pp 46 – 59). Paris: UNESCO
The future of international aid to education: a personal reflection
Aktilu Habte
Introduction
As the twenty-first century is about to dawn upon us all, we are all feverishly articulating our 'millennium' wishes. This chapter is no exception. Its central purpose is to revisit the future of aid to education and to conjoin those agencies, organizations and scholars that have discussed the issue in one form or another.[1] The future of aid to education continues to be in the realm of confusion despite the tremendous amount of experience gathered over the past several decades underpinning the centrality and, indeed, the inevitability of education for development and other desirable goals of societies.
The issue does pounded with additional cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic global and regional developments that are bound to have an impact on the lives of ordinary people and countries. This chapter does not deal with these issues, but we need to mention some of them, albeit briefly, as reminders of plexity and uncertainty of the future of education.
The most striking and indeed the most pivotal event or development of our era is the end of the Cold War which politically has accelerated the emergence of an economic, militar