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More books for more students: Reducing corruption in the book supply chain through “Track and Trace”

Penelope Bender
05.11.2019

Data are not systematically available, but a variety of studies have found textbook scarcity, including in Cameroon (1 reading textbook for 12 students), Togo (1 reading textbook for three students), Chad (80% of second grade students without French books), and Burkina Faso (92% of second grade students without mathematics textbooks) (UNESCO, 2016).

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