UNESCO recently estimated the annual education “financing gap” of low- and lower-middle-income countries – to cover education up through lower secondary school – to be around $22 billion. Ensuring the scale-up of upper-secondary school and ICT access might raise the needed annual sum to around $40 billion, with detailed cost estimates still to be made.
所需要的追加融资并不多。联合国教科文组织最新估计表明，中低收入国家的年度教育“融资缺口”——覆盖初中教育所需要的融资——大约为220亿美元。确保扩大高中教育和获得ICT将让年度融资缺口总额上升到400亿美元左右，详细的成本估算还有待研究。在今天的穷国实现足够大的经济进步、能够自力更生覆盖教育成本之前，都需要这类援助。