In October 2019, the World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics proposed a new metric, Learning Poverty, designed to spotlight low levels of learning and track progress toward ensuring that all children acquire foundational skills. This paper provides the technical background for that indicator, and for its main findings—first, that even before COVID-19, 53 percent of all children in low- and middle-income countries could not read with comprehension...
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Will Every Child Be Able to Read by 2030 ? Defining Learning Poverty and Mapping the Dimensions of the Challenge (Spanish). COVID-19 (Coronavirus)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9588 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/753551626719474471