Publication: Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19: A Crisis within a Crisis
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2020-12-01
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2020-12-02
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This brief summarizes the results of simulations estimating the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in learning poverty. Of 720 million primary school age children, 382 million are learning poor, either out of school or below the minimum proficiency level in reading. COVID-19 could boost that number by an additional 72 million to 454 million. In a post-COVID-19 scenario of no remediation and low mitigation effectiveness for the effects of school closures, simulations show learning poverty increasing from 53 percent of primary-school-age children to 63 percent.
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“Azevedo, Joao Pedro. 2020. Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19: A Crisis within a Crisis. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34850 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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