Too often, poverty persists from one generation to the next, but education can likely play a key role in whether people can move up and out of poverty.
Our report finds that the share of adults with more education than their parents stopped rising in the average developing economy since the 1960s. There are large gaps between countries. Only around 35% of today’s young adults in the average economy of Sub-Saharan Africa have more education than their parents, compared to nearly 60% in the average economy of East Asia, or the developed world.. #EndPoverty http://wrld.bg/kVHF30fRC68
