" Baldwin, reflecting on his stay in the white-peopled Swiss village of Leukerbad, was moved to write that "the most illiterate among them is related, in a way I am not, to Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo. . . .
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Lack of funding for public education ensures that Guatemala remains one of the most illiterate countries in the Americas, and failing health care and social security systems undercut what scant social safety nets exist for the poor.
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That Muslims continue to organize protests that turn out such large numbers nearly a month after demonstrations first began is remarkable, considering the fragmented nature of the community, among the nation's poorest and most illiterate, and its limited political power.
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In response, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other champions of the program say that Aadhaar is India's ticket to the future, a universal, easy-to-use ID that will reduce this country's endemic corruption and help bring even the most illiterate into the digital age.
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Most illiterate persons now live in Southern Asia or sub-Saharan Africa.
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With 77 percent of its population being illiterate, Tolaira was the most illiterate province of Madagascar. Only 22 percent of the province's population had received primary level education. The commercially valuable softwood tree Givotia madagascariensis, found in Antananarivo and Toliara provinces was endemic to Madagascar. The oil producing plant moringa drouhardii was endemic to Toliara province.
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Among the marginalised groups, STs are at the bottom of the rankings, further emphasising the lack of social development in the state. Bastar and Dantewada in south Chhattisgarh are the most illiterate districts and the drop out ratio is the highest among all the districts. The reason for this is the extreme poverty in rural areas.
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It is believed that she awards devotees with salvation, power, prosperity and treasures. She can grant oceans of wisdom even to most illiterate person, if he happens to worship her. Skandamātā who possesses the brilliance of the sun fulfills all the desires of her devotees. He who is selflessly devoted to her, attains all the achievements and treasures of life.
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Paper for All or Paper4All is non-profit / charity organization registered in Burkina Faso, United Kingdom, France and the United States. Paper for All's main focus is to provide education and improve children's learning conditions, by supplying academic resources and tutoring, in one of the most illiterate countries in continental Africa, Burkina Faso, a country with a literacy rate of 24%, one of the lowest in the world.
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Turpin once said "I am really a most illiterate man about money." During the course of his career he is estimated from records kept by his manager, to have grossed in the region of £300,000. Which would be the equivalent of £7,000,000 in today's money when re-valued by the rate of inflation. Prior to the second Robinson fight the system had been that the accountant dealt with the financial matters and his manager countersigned cheques for Randolph to withdraw money from his boxing earnings.
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In 1919, Bessarabia became the Romanian region with the highest illiteracy rate. Although the Romanian/Moldovan population was the largest, no Romanian language school operated in Bessarabia before 1918. As a result, among them, only 10.5% of men and 1.77% of women were literate. By 1930, although Bessarabia continued to be the region with the most illiterate people in Romania, the number of literates doubled, to 38,1% of the total population. In the 1920-1938 period, the number of primary schools increased from 1,747 to 2,718, and the number of students from 136,172 to 346,747.
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Time ticket, 1891 For the implementation of his "premium plan" for labor payment and production control, Halsey (1891) proposed the form of time ticket. He explains that this ticket should be: > ...issued by the foreman, the blanks at the top being filled up by him. If > desired as a check he punches a hole on the line, indicating the hour when > the work is given out, repeating the same when the work and ticket are > returned. The record of the time is kept by drawing a line between various > hour marks, an operation which the most illiterate can perform.
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Dove, p. 24 The defense argued that the Council lacked standing to bring the suit; Combs rebutted this argument and cited statistics that ranked Kentucky as the most illiterate state in the nation to show how inequitable financing had adversely affected the state's students. On June 8, 1989, the court handed down a 3–2 ruling declaring Kentucky's entire public school system unconstitutional and giving the General Assembly until the end of their next legislative session, which would convene in January 1990, to create a replacement.Dove, p. 25Bosworth, p. 127790 S.W.2d 186 (Kentucky, 1989) Commenting on the ruling, Combs said "My clients asked for a thimble-full, and [instead] they got a bucket-full".
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