Creating a literate environment: hidden dimensions and implications for policy

This paper is devoted to analyzing and illustrating the different dimensions of a literate environment. Care is taken to demonstrate the mechanics and the complementarity of the four major varieties of ""post-literacy"" activity and programming: (i) provision of reading materials for new literates, (ii) organization of beneficial and accessible varieties of continuing education, (iii) local assumption of new responsibilities for production, investment and service delivery in the surrounding economy, and (iv) assistance to new literates in securing credit and creating new business ventures of their own