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Adiseshiah, Malcolm S. – 1990
There is a close connection between illiteracy and poverty at all levels--global, national, and subnational; the countries with the lowest levels of literacy are also the poorest economically. Poverty breeds illiteracy by forcing children to drop out of school to work, and these illiterate people are forced to stay on the lowest levels of the work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Policy
