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Bill and Melinda Gates: "Smart aid works."

Bill and Melinda Gates review some of the amazing things smart aid programs have helped to achieve, including a halving of child mortality rates and one billion people have been lifted out of poverty

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46.5 million more children started going to school in Africa between 1999 and 2008

Fact: 46.5 million more children started going to school in Africa between 1999 and 2008

As a result of African leadership on education, backed by increased aid and debt cancellation.

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