out rate higher. Trying to eradicate illiteracy later with adult literacy programmes is
fraught with difficulties, not the least of which is choice of language. Illiteracy among
women sets back the process of development still further "because of its particular
importance as a generator of both human and economic advancement", (p 284).
The article contains a useful diagram (p. 277), illustrating the relationship between
female education and developmental gains in health and agricultural production.
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