In general, poor children living in rural areas are more likely than urban children from rich households to repeat grades and leave school before completing primary education and attaining basic foundational skills.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

In Brazil those living in rural areas are twice as likely to be poor as others, and around 45% in these areas have not completed lower secondary school.

UNESCO: One in twelve young people in Latin America and the Caribbean fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Helping a large Indian outsourcer go public, Janah hit on the notion that poor, educated people even in rural areas of developing countries could do data-entry work, just as people living in large Indian cities do.

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