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Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19 : A Crisis Within a Crisis (English)

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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  • Author

    Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De

  • Document Date

    2020/12/01

  • Document Type

    Brief

  • Report Number

    154660

  • Volume No

    1

  • Total Volume(s)

    1

  • Country

    World,

  • Region

    The World Region,

  • Disclosure Date

    2020/12/01

  • Disclosure Status

    Disclosed

  • Doc Name

    Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19 : A Crisis Within a Crisis

  • Keywords

    Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium; Progress in International Reading Literacy Study; primary school age child; education management information system; Primary and Secondary Education; poverty gap; poverty severity; Learning for All; children must; annual public expenditure; need of student; learning need; share of children; ministries of education; effects of shocks; access to asset; poverty headcount rate; in school; learning inequality; school closure; poverty increase; simulation result; higher learning; relative increase; effective strategy; learning assessment; school enrollment; Learning and Innovation Credit; empirical relevance; horizontal axis; complementary measure; development partner; student learning; effective learning; attending school; headcount ratio; school system; individual student; educational system; teacher support; education systems; academic school; learning opportunity; income shock; household income; headcount measure; young girl; educational distribution; several countries; editorial comments; learning strategy; global effort; working life; science study; higher inequality; school-age child; school population; age category; student dropout; early literacy; standard deviation; global poverty

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Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De

Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19 : A Crisis Within a Crisis (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163871606851736436/Learning-Poverty-in-the-Time-of-COVID-19-A-Crisis-Within-a-Crisis

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