Prospects is UNESCO’s quarterly review of comparative education including viewpoints, articles and trends/cases. Examples of the articles found in this issue are: educational chances of the poor at the end of the twentieth century; excellence, equity and diversity in education; education and poverty in South Africa; education and poverty in Western Europe; poverty and basic-level schooling in China: equity issues in the 1990s, and policy and equity: a third of a century of educational reforms in the United States.
