2009Sept15: Droughts could cause school enrollment to fall 20% in places like Côte d’Ivoire, according to the World Bank’s “World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change” report (New York Times, 2009).
Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/15/15climatewire-world-bank-report-slams-inertia-in-the-face-18561.html
Read the World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
Image Description: Façade principale de l’École nationale d’administration d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Photo by Zenman, 2009May2. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ena_Abidjan1.JPG Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.
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