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Despite high enrollment rates, students in most low- and middle-income countries were gaining insufficient knowledge and skills.

Despite high enrollment rates, students in most low- and middle-income countries were gaining insufficient knowledge and skills.

THE Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (Aral) program’s enactment will be key in hastening learning recovery as a priority of the government’s education agenda. In his second State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed renewed hope in providing the best education to the country’s students,…

Although African governments that deliver higher rates of primary enrollment enjoy greater approval ratings, the relative importance of access is likely to decline as countries approach universal primary education. That is already reflected in the prominence of learning outcomes as a predictor of citizen preference for education as a top government priority for the future. African governments in countries that have a lot of ground to cover in improving learning outcomes would do well to heed their citizens’ will.

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.