Development Relevance:Literacy rate is an outcome indicator to evaluate educational attainment. This data can predict the quality of future labor force and can be used in ensuring policies for life skills for men and women. It can be also used as a proxy instrument to see the effectiveness of...
a high literacy rate suggests the capacity of an education system to provide a large population with opportunities to acquire literacy skills. The accumulated achievement of education is fundamental for further intellectual growth and social and economic development, although it doesn't necessarily ensure...
Canada does not collect direct statistics on literacy. Rather, a government survey asks each person the highest grade completed in school, and that information is used to estimate the nation's literacy rate. In the mid-2010s, the survey revealed that about 10 percent of all Canadians between ...
J.R. Jayewardene, named his budgets as ‘Budgets of Full Employment’ meaning gaining a high growth rate to elevate the country to that status. But that goal has been an elusive goal and even after
This study participants’ education attainment seemed to corroborate this result in the region, which may have been influenced by their literacy rate and which in turn may have driven their financial awareness. Although the lowest in South Africa [19], put the literacy score in the Eastern Cape...
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For their part, Abubakar (2015) did the study in Africa, Arif (2015) and conducted a study in Pakistan, and Karakurum-Ozdemir et al. (2019) conducted a study to measure financial literacy levels in developing countries (Mexico, Lebanon, Uruguay, Colombia, and Turkey) finding that women, ...
In addition, campaigns for the appropriate level of digital literacy in the public sector should also be undertaken. Activities to treat and enlighten adolescents and adults with symptoms of PSU should be continuously undertaken. In particular, countries where the penetration rate of smartphones is ...
Education - Literacy, Success, Learning: Between 1950 and 2000 the worldwide illiteracy rate dropped from approximately 44 percent to 20 percent of the population aged 15 and older. Yet the number of illiterate people, according to UNESCO data, increased