Bob Harris, EI's Senior Consultant to the General Secretary, shares information and commentary on the impact of the financial crisis on education funding, and how education can be part of the solution.
At year’s end, the signals for the future of the global economy are mixed. On the one hand, recovery of the financial markets continues – with some fluctuations. On the other hand, all the experts state that unemployment will remain stubbornly high – some improvement is foreseen in the US, China, Brazil, India, Australia – but in general 2010 will be a year of confronting very tough times, for millions of working families.
Time-lags mean that public revenue in many countries will get worse before they get better, with the threat of so-called “exit strategies”, to write down debt, looming for all our public services, notably education. And great uncertainties are still there for Greece, Venezuela, Ukraine, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal – the list goes on.
And the developing countries in all this!
Maybe cautious optimism for the experts. But tough, tough realities for many, many people!
Careful optimism and tough realities
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