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The New Education Policy (NEP) announced recently envisages a big jump in the allocation of public expenditure on education from the current level of 2 percent of GDP to 7 percent in next five years. Many well meaning commentators, development practitioners, political leaders and external agencies also believe that the problem of education deficiency in Pakistan can be attributed to lack of funding. Memories are short and we have forgotten that a multi-donor multi-million dollar project - Social Action Program in the 1990s was a failure. It did not increase enrolment rates or achieved any of its targets but left the Government with higher debt.

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Dawn

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10-5-2009

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1-4

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