Joao Pedro Azevedo

Empty desks in a classroom

Learning losses due to COVID-19 could add up to $10 trillion

Joao Pedro Azevedo, Amer Hasan, Koen Geven, Diana Goldemberg, and Syedah Aroob Iqbal

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Children of the Satere Mawe Indian tribe school at the Sahu Ape village pose for a picture in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2015. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Bruno KellyPICTURE 13 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226436

Prioritizing public schooling over social transfers in Brazil

Martin Raiser and Joao Pedro Azevedo

Monday, November 26, 2018

5-Star Movement activists shout slogans during a protest against the new electoral law in downtown Rome, Italy, October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Tony Gentile - RC11FBAE3820

Did the EU’s economic recession lead to a rise in populism?

Enrique Aldaz-Carroll, Rogier van den Brink, Vincent Tsoungui Belinga, Matija Laco, Joao Pedro Azevedo, and Paul Corral Rodas

Tuesday, May 29, 2018