World Bank approves US$110mil loan to boost Philippine education


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MANILA, June 24 (Xinhua): The World Bank said on Saturday that it has approved a US$110 million loan to finance a project aiming to boost education quality in the southern Philippines.

The multilateral lender said nearly two million elementary school students from kindergarten to grade 6, as well as over 60,000 teachers and school administrators in three poor regions in western Mindanao, will benefit from the new project.

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