Rafaiat Ullah, 24, a university student in Chittagong, Bangladesh, said he thought he would be in a better financial position than his parents because of education. “My parents didn’t get a chance to be educated that much,” he said. “In low- and middle-income countries,” he said, “it’s seen as: ‘What’s my ticket to doing better? Throughout the world, the dream of a better life for the next generation persists, even if it’s increasingly out of reach in certain places. “That is what I would ask for my daughter, and I know that my parents in their day asked for it for me.”

Source: International New York Times November 18, 2021 06:59 UTC