A central policy recommendation: Connect literacy with its socio-economic applications – both pedagogically and structurally Experiment, perfect, evaluate and then publicize much more broadly a variety of inter-sectoral alliances between literacy programs and other development sectors devoted to --  local capacity building,  the assumption of new managerial powers by local actors,  the transfer and accumulation of new resources at the field level; and,  as possible, the reinforcement of related – and democratically constituted -- civil society institutions.
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