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This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from October 16 to October 31 on various topics, including trade, COVID-19, education, and public spending.  

How can it be ensured that capable and well-motivated young people, who do not see teaching as just another job, are attracted to this profession to enrich our education sector? It is well-known that teaching at present is the last choice as an occupation.

Pakistan’s Floods are Deepening its Learning Crisis

Children suffered the worst long-term consequences of the lockdowns. “The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022 Update,” found that an alarming 70% of middle and lower-class 10-year-olds across the globe cannot read. There is no greater freedom than knowledge, and reading comprehension is essential to our modern-day existence. “Only the richer segments of the population—those

Ministers of finance and education from Western and Central Africa have called for urgent reforms in education for better access to quality education for young people across the region. The Ministers emphasised that advancing education reforms would require strong leadership, sound governance, better implementation, and more investments in high-impact interventions,…

ACCRA  – More than forty ministers of finance and education from Western and Central Africa concluded a one-day meeting in Accra today with an urgent call to advance reforms in education and deliver better access to quality education for young people

More than forty ministers of finance and education from Western and Central Africa concluded a one-day meeting in Accra today with an urgent call to advance reforms in education and deliver better access to quality education for young people across the region. During the event, the new World Bank regional…

The report, titled The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022, shows that prolonged school closures, poor mitigation effectiveness, and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty in the global south.

A generation of students across the globe will likely suffer lifelong losses to their earning potential because of the closure of schools and universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kuwaiti experience due to the 1990 Gulf War shows just how costly such closures can be.

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Nobel Prize-winning economist has confirmed ‘learning gains among the largest ever measured’ in...