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Poor children have only 56 per cent chance of succeeding after school - World Bank

A pupil from Kibera primary school teaching his fellow classmates in file photo. [File, Standard]

Some children from more than 100 countries including superpower USA cannot read and understand a simple story by age 10 according to a World Bank brief titled Learning Poverty dated October 15, 2019.

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