During the 1990s, while the least developed countries in South Asia experienced sustained growth, the growth performance of the same group of countries in sub-Saharan Africa was not encouraging.
22 虽然在南亚和撒南非洲，妇女的文盲率很高，但拉丁美洲和加勒比以及东亚和太平洋区域并未出现这种现象。