Zealous missionaries have produced a highly literate population in Meghalaya that has happily adopted leather jackets and MTV.

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Only 4.7% of the total literate population has cleared intermediate but not bachelor's and just 4.3% have a bachelor's or above.

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Having a more technologically literate population will help our economic competitiveness, yes, but it will also protect our freedom, diversity and democracy.

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What Castro lacks in salable goods he can make up for with Cuba's highly literate population of 11 million, especially those in medicine.

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With an expanding and increasingly literate population throughout Europe, the arts became commercialised, the author and the composer selling their productions through the publisher and the impresario.

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Over half of the rural population is literate and the urban literacy ratio stood at almost three-fourth in the province.

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From fishermen to homemakers, from pre-schoolers to dropouts, from teachers to municipal workers - not forgetting the very young, the very old and the marginalized - the entire local population in the Municipality of Agoo in La Union, the Philippines, has the chance to become literate or upgrade their skills thanks to its municipal authority.

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