A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.
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My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
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If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.
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Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
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We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops as more of a country's citizens receive a secondary education.
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I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
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