Rwanda: Knowledge Is Wealth - Let's Invest More in Education

16 December 2012
editorial

ACCORDING to a new book by James R. Flynn from Cambridge University Press titled Are We Getting Smarter?, Singapore tops the average I.Q. standings list at 108. But what is interesting to ponder is the fact that the world's poorest countries are also the ones with the lowest average I.Q.

Scholars argue that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor countries is due to differences in national intelligence. Even in the US, states with higher average I.Q. have higher incomes.

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