Learning Poverty in the Time of COVID-19 : A Crisis within a Crisis
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 pro...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163871606851736436/Learning-Poverty-in-the-Time-of-COVID-19-A-Crisis-Within-a-Crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34850 |
| Summary: | 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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