China Daily says public expectations are running high for the two sessions, especially on corruption, pollution, education, healthcare and social security.

BBC: China media: Two sessions

These included: improvement of learning outcomes, engaging youth in planning education for social transformation and sustainable development, gender balance in leadership positions, overcoming corruption, achieving good governance in education, conflict mitigation and disaster risk reduction through education.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Results suggest that business profitability among the poor is constrained by a lack of education and health and by corruption.

CNN: Opinion: Is oil-rich Angola a development success?

And, as the World Bank itself acknowledged in its report on the quality of growth, poor people in developing countries need more than just money - to benefit from any growth that occurs, they need more access to jobs and education, and less discrimination and corruption.

BBC: The Lessons of Prague

"As president, my priorities will be education, food security, graft and corruption, and peace and order, " he says.

CNN: IS ESTRADA UNSTOPPABLE?

Schools, clinics and other public services had been withered by corruption, and Mr Sankoh's promises of free health care, free education and a fair distribution of diamond revenues sounded appealing.

ECONOMIST: Foday Sankoh

Yet, according to Mr Varma, the Indian middle class shows little inclination to fight the corruption, bad governance and incompetence that hold back the poor and block upward mobility through education.

ECONOMIST: Beyond Wisteria Lane

The secret of growth was then not just to strengthen the market but to cut the costs of doing business, to improve education and skills, to upgrade technology and, especially, to strengthen public institutions by reducing corruption and improving the rule of law.

ECONOMIST: A paean of faint praise to the World Development Report