No school, hard knocks: developing-world students hit hard

Published: July 16, 2020, 9:59 a.m.

For many of the 1.5bn pupils affected by school closures, fewer lessons just means more labour\u2014or worse. That spells a lifetime of lost earnings, and lost childhoods. Executive pay has long been in the spotlight, but the pandemic may at last spur some pay cuts. And why Cartagena, the \u201cpearl of the Caribbean\u201d, doesn\u2019t want its old tourism industry back. 

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