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In the absence of remedial measures, learning losses are likely to significantly reduce intergenerational mobility in a wide range of countries.
29 Shares I’ve been earning a living doing photography and writing for almost half-a-century, employed by or contracting with newspapers, magazines, and periodicals. I don’t have a website, I don’t enter contests. No weddings. But I’ve worked on four continents, rode with police and firefighters, bounced along on garbage trucks and photographed the upper one percent of the one percent. It has afforded me the ability to see what everyone else does for a living and I love it. Word of mouth and people seeing my work gets me most of my jobs and I still enjoy the heck out of what I do. And...
When the consequences of conflicts last generations: Intergenerational mobility in Iraq and Vietnam Vietnamese refugees living at the Songkhla refugee camp in Thailand. UN Photo/John Isaac. The immediate effects of conflict are starkly clear. They include deaths and injuries, population displacement, the destruction of assets, and the disruption of social and economic systems. But one day the fighting stops, and life in conflict-affected areas gradually returns to normal. Or does it? How long do the economic and welfare effects of armed conflict typically persist? In particular, how long will...