Announcing winners of the fifth World Bank and Financial Times youth blog competition

It’s been a complicated—and often frustrating—few years for students all over thethumbnail_2023_ft-wb_blog_winners_-_framed world. The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly changed the way children around the world learn.  Remote classes. Closures. Masks. It was a lot to deal with, and the long-term consequences could be severe.

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Join the second World Bank and Financial Times’ blog writing competition for high school students

If you can read this, then you are already doing better than 53% of children in low- and ftblog.jpgmiddle-income countries, who can’t read a simple text by age 10. Being able to read is fundamental for children to be able to learn other subjects like science and history. It also creates opportunities and opens more doors for them as they get older.

What can be done to help children learn to read by the time they are 10 years old? We want to hear from you! 

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