The state of the world's children, 1999.dollar5Education /
[Book]
[Carol Bellamy, executive director, United Nations Children's Fund].
New York :
UNICEF,
[1999]
131 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm.
State of the world's children,
1999
0265-718X ;
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Education for all : making the right a reality -- Statistical tables.
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Nearly a billion people will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names and two thirds of them are women. And they will live, as now, in more desperate poverty and poorer health than those who can. They are the world's functional illiterates-- and their numbers are growing.