Publication: Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19: A Crisis within a Crisis
Date
2020-12-01
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Published
2020-12-01
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Abstract
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.
Citation
“Azevedo, Joao Pedro. 2020. Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19 : A Crisis within a Crisis. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34850 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”