How to support students and the learning process during India’s COVID-19 school closures

Anjali Pant, Samuel Scott and Phuong Hong Nguyen

Chapter 20 in COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later, 2022, pp 126-128 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected 1.6 billion learners worldwide, and school closures could lead to a loss of 0.3–0.9 years of schooling, according to World Bank estimates; a global shutdown of five months could result in lost earnings of $10 trillion over students’ lifetimes. The pandemic’s economic shocks are likely to increase school drop-out rates. Evidence suggests that the poor, girls, and other marginalized groups disproportionately suffer the consequences of school closures.

Keywords: value chains; adolescents; agricultural products; policies; covid-19; health; learning; social protection; schoolchildren; nutrition; schools; food security; quarantine; poverty; India; Southern Asia; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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