Bangladesh, March 8 -- In its World Development Report (WDR) 2018, the World Bank has extensively focused on education in the section subtitled, "Learning to Realise Education's Promise". How countries perform in terms of children's education has been thoroughly assessed by the World Bank Group in order to shed light on what makes a country successful and what goes wrong with another. Collectively, the developing countries perform poorly. On an average 60 per cent primary students do not attain learning proficiency on an expected level. But the gaps in schooling and learning are outrageously wide from country to country.
If Bangladesh students learn in 11 years equivalent to just six and a half years' global benchmark (how it has been meas...