-
Literacy in India and China
China’s lead over India in the field of basic educating is the main reason of why China had many more achievements including land reform, the elimination of hunger, and the establishment of a basic social security system, the expansion of rural infrastructure. Moreover, the post reform period, was the period where there was an increase in the literate Chinese people resulting in higher incomes and an acceleration in the economic development. -
Pathways and Labyrinths: ''Language and Development in Education''
The author states that historic economic growth and literacy rates were tested in 83 countries, 12 of those countries who were the most developed and were having the fastest growth rates, were found to have 12 percent higher literacy rate above the average of the 83 countries proving that the higher the literacy rate in a country, the faster the economic growth of that country will be. -
Literacy Changes Lives: A new perspective on health, employment and crime
The author hints out that low literacy rates makes communities and individuals more vulnerable to inequality, increasing the risk of the situation where poor people do not feel part of the rest of the society and undermining the ability to move from one level of society to another. Literacy is a tool that has been used through decades to empower the society and gives more benefits to the economy as a whole, it gives greater capabilities to individuals in their lives and expands their knowledge a -
The Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy
Illiterate people can’t help the business to expand because they don’t have good communication skills and plus that they can’t resolve problems. The author wanted to introduce that idea in which literate people earn more money than illiterate people which helps them on spending more money in buying different products, this definitely helps the market and results in them being involved in the helping out the economy of the country.