Where the percentage of illiteracy is very high, we use puppetry.

The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one percent.

Today, the cost of global illiteracy is down to 7 of GDP.

And we do need to focus on eliminating poverty, stamping out illiteracy, and promoting peace.

Our literacy rates are far higher than our illiteracy ones and they re increasing every year.

It's from a study we did into illiteracy, and it's a guy in a teashop.

So, the global illiteracy problem in 1900 can be said to have cost the world 12 of GDP.

By 2050, when illiteracy will reach about 12 , the cost will have dwindled to just 3.8 of GDP.

Together with the Copenhagen Consensus, economists have attempted to assess the cost of illiteracy.

So this is probably the thing I'm most passionate about is the research that we've been doing on illiteracy and how people who are illiterate communicate.

The literacy campaign allowed for the eradication of illiteracy and facilitated universal access to different levels of free education.

Illiteracy today still afflicts 20 of the world s population, but that is down sharply from an estimated 70 in 1900.

Today s rising tide of disease, hunger, squalor, and illiteracy more than half of the refugee children are not in school will affect an entire generation for life.

So in just a few hundred words, Hurston linked Eatonville with self government but also illiteracy, remarriage and sex.

After mothering children, it is highly unlikely that she will have the chance to resume her education, leaving her at the mercy of illiteracy, physical and emotional abuse, and poverty.

Noting with concern that over 100 million children are not in school and some 800 million adults are illiterate today, that the issue of illiteracy may not be sufficiently high on national agendas to generate the kind of political and economic support required to address global illiteracy challenges, and that the world is unlikely to meet those challenges if the present trends continue,

One is the gap in opportunity this gap that President Clinton last night called uneven, unfair and unsustainable and, out of that, comes poverty and illiteracy and disease and all these evils that we see around us.

Indeed, the adult illiteracy rate in Somalia is 63 , and 39 in Nigeria in South Sudan, more girls die during childbirth than complete primary school.

We estimate that if there had been no illiteracy in 1900, the world would have been 240 billion richer (in inflation adjusted terms), equivalent to about 12 of global GDP at the time.

So, we gave it all back, and then we set up three foundations, working on some of the major problems of the world illiteracy, poverty, pandemic diseases particularly HIV AIDS and set up these three foundations, and put the money into that.

Expressing its concern that, more than fifty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the unacceptable situation of absolute poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness remains the lot of over one billion people,

In the developing world, sustained wealth creation and public health advances have increased average life expectancy by 20 years since the mid 1970s, and adult illiteracy has been nearly halved in the last 30 years.

9. Requests all relevant entities of the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in cooperation with national Governments, to take immediate, concrete steps to address the needs of countries with high illiteracy rates and or with large populations of illiterate adults, with particular regard to women

Expressing serious concern about the continued global spread of HIV AIDS, which exacerbates poverty and poses a major threat to economic and social development and to food security in heavily affected regions, while recognizing that poverty, underdevelopment and illiteracy are among the principal contributing factors to the spread of the disease,

Obviously, the legacy of colonialism widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence is a major factor in their current poverty. But how can we blame that legacy while turning a blind eye to a kind of colonialism against women in these same countries private homes and public institutions?

The formula for calculating it is HPI 2 formula_6formula_2 Probability at birth of not surviving to age 60 (times 100)formula_3 Adults lacking functional literacy skillsformula_4 Population below income poverty line (50 of median adjusted household disposable income)formula_10 Rate of long term unemployment (lasting 12 months or more)formula_5 3The last report, 2007 2008, only has a ranking for 19 of the 22 countries with the highest Human Development Index.