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Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy

In: The Time-Travelling Economist

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  • Charlie Robertson

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The ranking of adult literacy by region, in the only census in Imperial Russia in 1897, is a perfect guide to the wealth of each province in 2017—and the most literate countries in Africa in the 1940s were the richest in 2020. The low literacy most post-imperial countries inherited at independence condemned them to poverty in the twentieth century, but now much of Africa and nearly all of Asia have the human capital to escape poverty. As Mary Jean Bowman wrote in the 1960s, it is human capital leading to industrialisation, and not natural resources, that will ensure this.

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  • Charlie Robertson, 2022. "Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy," Springer Books, in: The Time-Travelling Economist, pages 1-42, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-97597-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97597-5_1
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