In South Africa there has been a surge in publicly funded adult literacy education in recent years. There is a … recognition that for the effective monitoring of adult literacy, direct measures of literacy are required. Grade attainment, self … literacy in South Africa. It is noteworthy that self-reported values change over time as people's perceptions of what …

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A … literacy which typically exceed the standard literacy rate. The latter risks generating policy complacency. The aim of this … paper is to suggest a measure of literacy that is not limited by (1) and (2). The measure is axiomatically characterized and …

Literacy has been conceptualized traditionally as having a major role in developing a nation. Literacy helps to spread … awareness among the people of their rights. People with good literacy skills enjoy a higher standard of living, have better … literacy rate is more likely to attract a large pool of investors and entrepreneurs as well as the inflow of money which in …

process. The result of this experiment survey is human development indexes special education and literacy indexed to economic … results of this estimate show that literacy and education indexes have meaningful and positive effect on economic growth. The …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … significant positive impact of private school growth on literacy while its effect on gender gap in literacy remains rather limited … in our sample. Compared to 15-19 year olds, private school effect of literacy is stronger among 10-14 year old children …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … significant positive impact of private school growth on literacy while its effect on gender gap in literacy remains rather limited … in our sample. Compared to 15-19 year olds, private school effect of literacy is stronger among 10-14 year old children …

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether …

Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face … rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains hugely controversial amongst educationalists and has seldom been studied by …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy … literacy. Leveraging novel data on the locations and timings of school openings in the 1970s INPRES school building program, we … document that household heads' literacy gained during childhood was pivotal for their households subsequently receiving their …

literacy and boosting students' reading and writing proficiency. The program provides research summaries about teaching …