Postwar generations shut out of economic mobility, finds report

Girls around the world find it easier to improve their economic position than boys do, says study.Children around the world have failed to get a better education than their parents and improve their economic circumstances, so generations of poor people in developing countries are becoming “trapped in a cycle of poverty determined by their circumstance at birth”, says a World Bank report.Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World , successive generations in the postwar era,