Infrastructure And Literacy

Morocco's illiteracy rate was estimated at just under 40% in a recent speech by Prime Minister Driss Jettou. This remains high but would represent rapid progress on 1990s figures. Boosting adult and school literacy programmes is the large-scale transformation of rural infrastructure, with rapid electrification and road-building programmes making it easier to get teachers to people and people to appropriate facilities. The government's figures for infrastructural improvement, if accurate, represent incredible progress, and literacy rates are likely to improve more rapidly still as and if the massive urban-rural divide

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