Kevin Watkins
Kevin Watkins
Kevin Watkins joined the Overseas Development Institute as Executive Director in June 2013. His research focuses on education, globalization and human development. He is a former nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He was previously the director and lead author of the UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report...
Kevin Watkins quotes about
summit
If this summit fails, there really is no way back.
commitment cooperation forget millennium produce strengthen strong summit
If this summit doesn't produce a strong commitment to strengthen cooperation around the Millennium Development Goals...then we may as well forget the project.
cold community continue countries downhill failing help numbers path progress resources shows steps unless
The Index shows in clear, cold numbers that many countries are not only failing to progress, but are actually slipping backward, and they will continue on that downhill path unless the international community steps in to help with more resources and new policies.
debt seems sounds
on debt at least it sounds encouraging, it seems there has been some progress.
december four round seen stuck
We have seen four years of wrangling without anything happening. They are stuck in quicksand, and if they don't get out by December the round will collapse.
globalization produce inequality
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.