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Yamini Aiyar on the Education Pandemic

03.31.2022 - By IMF PodcastsPlay

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The pandemic has sparked an enormous upheaval in education around the world. But in India and many other low-income countries where remote learning is often not an option, children's education has simply fallen off the rails. Yamini Aiyar is President of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. In this podcast, Aiyar speaks with journalist Rhoda Metcalfe about how the digital divide has pushed poor kids into an educational deficit that could reverberate for years.   Transcript: https://bit.ly/3NBfWpk Yamini Aiyar is also the author of The Education Pandemic published in Finance and Development. Read more about bridging learning gaps amongst children here

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