Natural resource revenue could reduce out-of-school numbers by 86%, Times of India, May 7, 2013

Seventeen developing countries could pay to provide education for 86% of their out-of-school children or 42% of their out of school adolescents if they managed their revenues from natural resources better. An additional US$5 billion in funding for education could be raised from these 17 countries annually if 30% of income from their minerals and 75% from their oil and gas was converted into public revenue and 20% of this sum invested in education.