Why investing in post-primary education is important
Recommended reading
- Higher education in developing countries: peril and promise
- ( World Bank , 2000)
- Higher education, this review argues, is essential to development. Yet across most of the developing world, the potential of higher education to promote development is being realised only marginally, ...
- Constructing knowledge societies: new challenges for tertiary education
- ( J. Salmi / Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank , 2002)
- This paper argues that in the context of the global knowledge economy, tertiary education is even more important to emerging economies than it ever was. The author states that knowledge accumulation a...
- Education, training and their enabling environments: a review of research and policy
- ( R. King; R. Palmer / Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh , 2006)
- It has long been claimed that a higher number of years of basic education will produce a range of social and economic benefits, including increased agricultural productivity, higher incomes and improv...
- The importance of secondary, vocational and higher education to development
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2006)
- This DFID practice paper gives a brief overview of the importance of investing in secondary, vocational and higher education in developing countries. The paper defines basic education as nine years o...
- The economic and human development costs of missing the Millennium Development Goal on gender equity
- ( D. Abu-Ghaida; S. Klasen / Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group] , 2004)
- At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in ...
- Beyond the ABCs: higher education and developing countries
- ( D. Kapur;M. Crowley / Center for Global Development, USA , 2008)
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This paper analyses a relatively neglected facet of the complex debate regarding human capital – higher (or tertiary) education. It addresses five broad questions examining higher education i...
- Development impact of higher education in Africa: the case of Uganda
- ( M. Obwona;S. Ssewanyana / Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda , 2007)
- Recent evidence suggests higher education is both a result and determinant of income. This report examines the impact of higher education in Uganda’s development process and identifies ways to ...
- Higher education and development in Africa
- ( D. Bloom; D. Canning; K. Chan / World Bank , 2006)
- This study suggests that, as a result of limited provision of higher education that constrain take-up of technology, production in Sub-Saharan Africa is around 23% lower than its potential levels of o...
