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  • Tonga: 10 Minutes Reading a Book with a Child Makes a Lifetime of Difference
    Tonga, April 23, 2017 - Family is central to life in Tonga. And celebrating family, and time spent together is the focus of a new World Bank-supported campaign encouraging Tongan parents and family members...
    Date: April 23, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Making Data Work for Development: The World Bank and DFID Conclude Sudan’s First Data Literacy Program
    KHARTOUM, November 14, 2016— The World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) successfully concluded today Phase I of the Sudan Evidence Base Program, Sudan’s first data literacy...
    Date: November 14, 2016 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Early Years Learning Workshop Opens in Tonga
    Workshop to support children’s school readiness and reading improvement. NUKU’ALOFA, TONGA, October 25, 2016 – A regional training workshop to support school readiness and reading for Pacific children...
    Date: October 25, 2016 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • A better start for children in Tonga
    Nuku'alofa, Tonga – At least once a week, Fakamalinga Tonga takes her four-year old son, Falefehi, to play-based activities organized by her community. These play groups have only been running for less...
    Date: December 28, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • An Open Book: Papua New Guinean Kids Read for a Brighter Future
    Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, November 25, 2015 – In Papua New Guinea (PNG), low levels of literacy are a critical challenge. Of the country’s seven million people, more than a third (37%) are illiterate...
    Date: November 25, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Africa Gains in Health, Education, but Numbers of Poor Grow
    Ahead of End Poverty Day, new World Bank Group report highlights progress and challenges, calls for ambitious efforts to collect data ACCRA, Ghana, October 16, 2015 – Africa’s strong economic...
    Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Infographic: Why Basic Reading Skills Matter in Laos

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    Date: February 3, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Philippines: Learning Behind Bars
    Butuan City, Philippines – “Thank you Lord for all the blessings I receive each day,” reads the opening line of a short, hand-written letter in Filipino. Written in script on a school notepad, the letter...
    Date: June 23, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Women of Côte d’Ivoire Speak Out
    ABIDJAN, August 6, 2013 ¾ On the African continent, where the majority of the population subsists from agriculture, only 18% of farmland is owned by women. In Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s top producer of...
    Date: August 6, 2013 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • World Bank to Support Better Schooling for a Million Children in Chad
    WASHINGTON, June 21, 2013 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $US15 million IDA* grant today that will support Chad’s efforts to improve teaching and learning in primary and upper...
    Date: June 21, 2013 Type: Press Release Language: English