Laureate urges India to overcome illiteracy.(Economist Amartya Sen) From: Business Asia | Date: February 1, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 First Charlton Communications Pty Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Nobel Prize economics laureate Amartya Sen says India needs to give a boost to basic education to speed up its economic development.

Describing illiteracy as "an issue of greatest concern", Mr Sen added: "Social change is something in which elementary education plays a major part."

India has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in the world, with 52 per cent of its population, or 424 million people, unable to read or write.

Mr Sen, awarded the Nobel Economics Prize last year for his contributions to welfare economics, told a meeting of educationists that elementary ...

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