Editing Economic development (section)

=== Other factors ===
Other factors include the [[inflation]] rate, [[investment]] level and [[national debt]], birth and death rates, [[life expectancy]], [[morbidity]], education levels (measured through [[literacy]] and [[numeracy]] rates), [[housing]], [[social services]] like [[hospital]]s, [[health facility|health facilities]], clean and safe [[drinking water]], schools (measured by the distance learners must travel to reach them), ability to use hard [[infrastructure]] (railways, roads, ports, airports, harbours, etc.), and [[telecommunications]] and other soft infrastructure like the [[Internet]].<ref name=Ngowi/>