More than half of tenyear olds in poorer countries and nearly 90 per cent of those in Sub-saharan Africa lack basic reading skills, the World Bank said as it unveiled a new initiative to halve “learning poverty” over the coming decade.
In an effort to boost education spending and to increase it
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