A random review of the educational expenditures of almost any government – perhaps especially those with high rates of illiteracy – will show that schools and universities account in most cases for more than 95 per cent of the allocations. The high rate of illiteracy among citizens, particularly in rural areas, is considered to be the most serious and dangerous constraint impeding the political, economic and social progression of the country. The application of laws and regulations, the levying and accounting of taxes, the multiplying petty business of central and subordinate governments led in turn to the multiplication of employments requiring literacy. Political debate, tracts, pamphlets would have contributed to a climate stimulating to the acquisition of literacy. The gradual loosening of the right to vote from restriction to people of property to the inclusion of people who were literate was yet a further incentive for schooling and education.