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Coronavirus: Skills lost due to COVID-19 school closures will hit output for generations, OECD estimates

September 8, 2020

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday warned that the disruption to education due to school closures as part of efforts to combat COVID-19 would cause a skill loss that could result in a 1.5 per cent drop in global economic output.

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