Ugly Stat from UNESCO last March!

"This new analysis, which was prepared by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team, was presented at the first session of the UNESCO Future Forum, devoted to the impact of the financial and economic crisis on multilateralism and UNESCO. The authors document the potential impact of the economic downturn on internationally agreed human development targets. They estimate that reduced growth in 2009 will cost the 390 million people in sub-Saharan Africa living in extreme poverty $18bn, or $46 per person. The projected loss represents 20 per cent of the per capita income of Africa’s poor – a figure that dwarfs the losses sustained in the developed world. "