This is largely due to the direct and indirect effects of past sharp increases in energy and food prices globally. There are some indications, however, that domestic inflationary pressures are intensifying as labour cost growth has been increasing in the recent quarters.
It also demonstrates that at least one third of its population and labor force is not fully equipped to take up the ever changing and more complex tasks of the economy trying to outclass other competing countries. In Pakistan and Bangladesh almost  BIS Review 50/2004  3  half of their population and two-third of female population are illiterate.