In the last thirty years underdevelopment has been attributed to various causes, including shortcomings in education, but there has been no exploration of the possible correlation between underdevelopment and the absence of mother-tongue education. The author believes that there is a connection and that it might be fruitful if those pursuing studies in development, language planning, and language teaching were to work more closely together.
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Gypsy Abbott (1992) studied this question.