Africa: The case against the IMF on education - A new report

In the world’s poorest countries many children have gone without quality education for far too long, and as a result, the human capital that these countries need to grow and develop sustainably is still in desperately short supply. A new research report by Action Aid on Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone shows that a major factor behind the chronic and severe shortage of teachers is that International Monetary Fund policies have required many poor countries to freeze or curtail teacher recruitment.