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What's the true cost of lockdown on our kids' futures?

13 August 2020

10:06 PM

13 August 2020

10:06 PM

We’ve heard endless statistics on the likely death toll from Covid-19, and over the past week we have learned just how great was the economic devastation in most countries in the second quarter as they locked down to deal with the disease. But what about the global impact on children’s education? That is something the World Bank has attempted to estimate.

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