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While aid for primary education has always appealed to U.S. policymakers and the public and is consistent with American values of expanding opportunity for all, U.S. aid for education has languished in the past two decades. Aid for health has increased six-fold while aid for education has grown by only a third. The next president should consider announcing U.S. support for a big international push to expand quality primary schooling in low-income countries so that all children have the chance to learn.</p><div class="download-pdf" style="float:right;visibility:hidden;" id="div_bottom_share"><a target="_newfb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111222185803/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/967261/&t=Aid for Education: More Bang for the Buck (White House and the World Policy Brief)"><img style="position: relative;top: -1px;" src="/web/20111222185803im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/facebook_share.png"></a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111222185803/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CGDev">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111222185803js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>  </td> <td style="width:20px"></td> <td id="section-sidebar" valign="top">  <h3>CGD Experts</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a></li> </ul> <h3>Articles</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423230/">Educating our Way out of the Crisis (Global Post)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1422424/">G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education (Huffington Post)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423470/">G-8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education (Huffington Post)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1422387/">G8 Asked to Create Global Education Fund (Voice of America)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421224/">U.S.: Diplomatic, Aid Spending Set to Rise Under Obama Budget (Inter Press Service)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1420918/">David Gergen Sees Risks, Opportunities for Global Development in Obama Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423619/">The White House & the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President: Q&A; with Nancy Birdsall</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423649/">Rescuing the MDGs: Paying for results</a></li> </ul> <br/>  </td> </tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_div = $("#div_bottom_share"); var offset = share_div.offset(); if(offset.top > 999 || 0){ document.getElementById('div_bottom_share').style.visibility = 'visible'; } </script>  <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td align="left"> <a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/section/contactus/">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/presscenter/">Press Center</a> | <a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/employment/">Jobs</a> | <a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about_enews/sitefeeds/">RSS</a> | <a href="/web/20111222185803/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/">Invest</a> </td> <td align="right"> © 2011, CGD. 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