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What we know about acquisition of adult literacy: is there hope?
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, June 1994)
Literacy acquired in childhood positively influences quality of life, but the effects of literacy acquired in adulthood are not well known. Experience shows that literacy is not easily disseminated to adults and that the ...
Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)
Abstract
Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary ...