A lack of education for young children affects the country's economic progress

歌曲 A lack of education for young children affects the country's economic progress
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[00:00.10] From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.37] this is the Education Report.
[00:05.24] A new study finds a lack of education
[00:08.99] for young children in developing nations
[00:11.95] seriously affects the country's economic progress.
[00:16.25] The organization Results for Development
[00:20.62] called R4D performed the study.
[00:24.73] The Non-Governmental group is based in Washington D.C.
[00:29.10] Its study says children who are not attending primary school
[00:34.64] are an unused source of economic growth for their country.
[00:40.01] R4D says it performed the study because it was worried
[00:45.38] about a growing worldwide problem in education.
[00:49.81] The group found 57 million children of primary school age
[00:55.48] are not in school,
[00:57.73] most of them are from sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
[01:03.66] Milan Thomas works for R4D.
[01:06.87] He says there has been progress
[01:09.54] in reducing the number of children who do not attend school,
[01:14.57] but he says that progress has slowed in recent years.
[01:19.04] He says there is no disagreement that children
[01:22.95] with basic education can look forward to a better life.
[01:27.57] "The benefits associated with primary education
[01:29.82] are really undisputed at this point
[01:31.63] because there are countless studies
[01:32.92] showing that children who complete basic education
[01:35.13] tend to enjoy better health
[01:36.68] and higher incomes over their lifetimes," said Thomas.
[01:38.94] But he says even though the value of education is known,
[01:43.26] it is important to find new ways of proving that value.
[01:48.04] So the organization led its work with the question,
[01:52.50] "what is the estimated cost to a nation's economy
[01:57.15] of its out–of-school children? "
[01:59.91] The study uses information
[02:02.12] from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics,
[02:05.89] as well as studies of developing labor markets.
[02:09.26] The results estimate the losses suffered
[02:12.67] by 20 developing countries
[02:14.63] if more young children can not get basic education.
[02:19.50] Milan Thomas says the study also considered earnings
[02:23.52] the children not attending primary school would never receive.
[02:29.03] He says the research found that it is far more costly
[02:33.46] in sub-Saharan Africa to have primary school age children
[02:38.55] out of school than to educate them.
[02:41.65] He notes the cost to provide all children with primary education
[02:46.33] is much less than the average cost of not providing the schooling.
[02:52.64] He says the cost of educating children
[02:55.43] is more than the value of a full year’s
[02:59.15] average economic growth for five countries in the study:
[03:03.88] they are Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Yemen.
[03:10.23] Mr Thomas says the cost of children being out-of-school in Senegal
[03:15.17] is nearly 8 percent of the country's total goods and services.
[03:20.80] He said Nigeria has the highest number
[03:24.12] of out-of-school children — 10 million.
[03:27.08] He said that will cost the country billions of dollars.
[03:31.65] He says he hopes the study will prove to local governments
[03:35.73] and policy makers the value of a basic education for all children.
[03:41.90] And he says he hopes it will move them to provide that education
[03:46.57] to primary school age children in their country.
[03:50.18] And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report.
[03:55.15] I'm Christopher Cruise.

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[00:00.10] From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.37] this is the Education Report.
[00:05.24] A new study finds a lack of education
[00:08.99] for young children in developing nations
[00:11.95] seriously affects the country' s economic progress.
[00:16.25] The organization Results for Development
[00:20.62] called R4D performed the study.
[00:24.73] The NonGovernmental group is based in Washington D. C.
[00:29.10] Its study says children who are not attending primary school
[00:34.64] are an unused source of economic growth for their country.
[00:40.01] R4D says it performed the study because it was worried
[00:45.38] about a growing worldwide problem in education.
[00:49.81] The group found 57 million children of primary school age
[00:55.48] are not in school,
[00:57.73] most of them are from subSaharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
[01:03.66] Milan Thomas works for R4D.
[01:06.87] He says there has been progress
[01:09.54] in reducing the number of children who do not attend school,
[01:14.57] but he says that progress has slowed in recent years.
[01:19.04] He says there is no disagreement that children
[01:22.95] with basic education can look forward to a better life.
[01:27.57] " The benefits associated with primary education
[01:29.82] are really undisputed at this point
[01:31.63] because there are countless studies
[01:32.92] showing that children who complete basic education
[01:35.13] tend to enjoy better health
[01:36.68] and higher incomes over their lifetimes," said Thomas.
[01:38.94] But he says even though the value of education is known,
[01:43.26] it is important to find new ways of proving that value.
[01:48.04] So the organization led its work with the question,
[01:52.50] " what is the estimated cost to a nation' s economy
[01:57.15] of its out ofschool children? "
[01:59.91] The study uses information
[02:02.12] from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics,
[02:05.89] as well as studies of developing labor markets.
[02:09.26] The results estimate the losses suffered
[02:12.67] by 20 developing countries
[02:14.63] if more young children can not get basic education.
[02:19.50] Milan Thomas says the study also considered earnings
[02:23.52] the children not attending primary school would never receive.
[02:29.03] He says the research found that it is far more costly
[02:33.46] in subSaharan Africa to have primary school age children
[02:38.55] out of school than to educate them.
[02:41.65] He notes the cost to provide all children with primary education
[02:46.33] is much less than the average cost of not providing the schooling.
[02:52.64] He says the cost of educating children
[02:55.43] is more than the value of a full year' s
[02:59.15] average economic growth for five countries in the study:
[03:03.88] they are Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mali, Senegal and Yemen.
[03:10.23] Mr Thomas says the cost of children being outofschool in Senegal
[03:15.17] is nearly 8 percent of the country' s total goods and services.
[03:20.80] He said Nigeria has the highest number
[03:24.12] of outofschool children 10 million.
[03:27.08] He said that will cost the country billions of dollars.
[03:31.65] He says he hopes the study will prove to local governments
[03:35.73] and policy makers the value of a basic education for all children.
[03:41.90] And he says he hopes it will move them to provide that education
[03:46.57] to primary school age children in their country.
[03:50.18] And that' s the VOA Learning English Education Report.
[03:55.15] I' m Christopher Cruise.