In just two decades, primary school enrolment in two of the world's poorest countries - Niger and Burkina Faso - increased from 20% to more than 60%. Despite this encouraging trend, both countries are rated as having failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education by 2015.
Over the years, the lack of an appropriate yardstick to monitor progress in poor countries' development programmes has often been criticised by experts.
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