Weightless and intangible, it can easily travel the world, enlightening the lives of people everywhere. Yet billions of people still live in the darkness of poverty—unnecessarily. Knowledge about how to treat such a simple ailment as diarrhea has existed for centuries—but millions of children continue to die from it because their parents do not know how to save them.

carl Dahlam et al
WDR-1998_99-English

Knowledge for development. World Development Report. The World Bank & Oxford University Press (1998)