The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) awarded $75,000 to each of five local ABE sites to enhance efforts to provide postsecondary education and support services that help adults become employed in occupational sectors important to local economies.
In India, close to 25 per cent of the people had full-time employment between 2008 and 2012, which is low compared with BRICS peers. Russia was followed by Brazil, where the median per capita income was $2,247, followed by China ($1,786) and South Africa ($1,217).
By 2011, the share living on just $2 plunged 22 percentage points, to 9%. Over the same period, the median daily per capita income in China increased $2.36 to $5.34, a gain of 126%. As China added to its middle-income population, its share in the global middle class nearly quadrupled from 2001 to 2011.