Transforming Education Means Fighting Poverty Traps
Giving all children the best chance to succeed requires addressing glaring inequalities in educational opportunities and investment. Above all, achieving the United Nations’ goal of ensuring quality universal education for all means eradicating environmentally destructive and economically inefficient poverty traps.
SAN JOSÉ – The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant global disruption in education in modern history. With nine out of ten children around the world affected, two decades of progress on educational access and attainment are at risk.