Download or read book The Relation of Education and R D to Productivity Growth in the Developing Countries of Africa written by Walter W. McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education and Productivity in Developing Countries written by Lawrence J. Lau and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is an important determinant of aggregate real output and productivity, but its effect varies considerably across countries and regions- ranging from negative to more than 5 percent a year in this sample.
Download or read book The Relation of Education and R and D to Productivity Growth in Developing Countries of Africa written by W.M. MacMahon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Productivity and Inequality written by John B. Knight and published by World Bank. This book was released on 1990 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between resources devoted to education and the economy of developing nations is explored. The research seeks to understand if and how investment in education translates into increased economic growth and labor productivity. Additionally, the function of education in reducing various dimensions of economic inequality is examined. The two East African nations that are the study's focus, Kenya and Tanzania, have similar levels of income, but they differ markedly in their public policy toward the provision of secondary education and thus in the educational attainment of the labor force. The research findings provide strong backing for the human capital paradigm: educational expansion is shown to raise labor productivity. The results also show that making education less scarce diminishes inequality in access to education and in income. Numerous figures and tables of data appear throughout this volume; a list of 170 references is included. (DB)
Download or read book Education and Economic Growth in the Developing Countries written by Péter Mándi and published by Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó. This book was released on 1981 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the role of education in developing country economic growth (economics of education) - discusses the historical and theoretical background, educational policy issues, effects on economic and social development, socialist country and developed country experience, teacher training, vocational education, enrolment and quality problems, university graduate unemployment, educational expenditure and brain drain, provides an evaluation of UNESCO conferences, and advocates educational planning based on labour demand. References.
Download or read book Education and Development in Africa written by A. R. Thompson and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curricular Content Educational Expansion and Economic Growth written by Aaron Benavot and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many academicians, politicians, and educators strongly believe that knowledge, organized in school curricula and transmitted through school systems, contributes to the economic strength of nations. How valid is this claim?
Download or read book Universities and Economic Development in Africa written by Nico Cloete and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a development model and the role of higher education in development, at both national and institutional levels. There is, however, an increasing awareness, particularly at government level, of the importance of universities in the global context of the knowledge economy. 2. Research production at the eight African universities is not strong enough to enable them to build on their traditional undergraduate teaching roles and make a sustained contribution to development via new knowledge production. A number of universities have manageable student-staff ratios and adequately qualifi ed staff, but inadequate funds for staff to engage in research. In addition, the incentive regimes do not support knowledge production. 3. In none of the countries in the sample is there a coordinated effort between government, external stakeholders and the university to systematically strengthen the contribution that the university can make to development. While at each of the universities there are exemplary development projects that connect strongly to external stakeholders and strengthen the academic core, the challenge is how to increase the number of these projects. The project on which this report is based forms part of a larger study on Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA). HERANA is coordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa.
Download or read book Struggling to Make the Grade A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Weak Outcomes of South Africa s Education System written by Mr.Montfort Mlachila and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational achievement by almost any international metric. The paper finds that money is clearly not the main issue since the South Africa’s education budget is comparable to OECD countries as a percent of GDP and exceeds that of most peer sub-Saharan African countries in per capita terms. The main explanatory factors are complex and multifaceted, and are associated with insufficient subject knowledge of some teachers, history, race, language, geographic location, and socio-economic status. Low educational achievement contributes to low productivity growth, and high levels of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. Drawing on the literature, the paper sketches some policy considerations to guide the debate on what works and what does not.
Download or read book Policy Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries written by William K. Cummings and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries aims at helping policymakers in developing countries better understand the processes and strategies for education reform, and the policy options available to them. This text focuses on the content of reform-options and strategies for achieving educational improvement at different levels of the system, e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary; for different sub-sectors, e.g., management, teachers; and for different purposes with which education systems are tasked, e.g., reaching peripheral groups of students, linking youth and employment. A holistic approach is increasingly recognized as essential to realizing the promises of education for the development of social and human capital-innovation in a global economy, sustained economic growth, social harmony and greater civic participation, decreased achievement gaps, and increased equity.
Download or read book Education in Developing Areas written by Donald K. Adams and published by New York : D. McKay Company. This book was released on 1968 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on problems of economic development in developing countries and the role of educational planning in the solution thereof - refers to various countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and covers patterns of educational poverty, common educational problems in the developing nations, educational needs, etc. Bibliography at the end of each chapter.
Download or read book Education and Nation building in the Third World written by John Lowe and published by New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of conference papers on the contribution of education to political and economic development and the process of social change in developing countries - examines the current scope of technical cooperation provided by the UN and specialized agencies, the relationship between economic planning and education, the role of adult education (incl. Of women), costs, teaching in different languages for minority groups, approaches to educational planning in Africa, Cuba and the USSR, etc. Map, references and statistical tables. Conference held in edinburgh 1969.
Download or read book The changing structure of Africa s economies written by Diao, Xinshen and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, some counties in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) have experienced growth in their economies and improvements in living standards. Although there is some debate, it is clear that the share of the population living below the poverty line fell significantly over the past decade and a half; there has been a general decline in infant mortality rates and increased access to education; in some of the fastest-growing economies, average growth rates have been positive for the first time in decades; and since the early 1990s, real consumption in SSA has grown between 3.4 and 3.7 percent per year. The reasons behind this so-called “African growth miracle” are not well understood, and to our knowledge, this paper is the first to connect these improvements in living standards to important occupational changes. Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center’s Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys, we show that much of SSA’s recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline is most pronounced for rural females over the age of 25 who have a primary education. This has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. We also show that although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income SSA countries, the employment share in manufacturing has not peaked and is still expanding, albeit from very low levels. Although these patterns are encouraging, more work is needed to understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in SSA.
Download or read book The Skills Balancing Act in Sub Saharan Africa written by Omar Arias and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below those of other regions. Smart investments in developing skills—aligned with the policy goals of productivity growth, inclusion, and adaptability—can help to accelerate the region’s economic transformation in the 21st century. Sub-Saharan Africa’s growing working-age population presents a major opportunity to increase shared prosperity. Countries in the region have invested heavily in building skills; public expenditure on education increased sevenfold over the past 30 years, and more children are in school today than ever before. Yet, systems for building skills in this population have fallen short, and these shortcomings significantly impede economic prospects. In half of the countries, fewer than two in every three children complete primary school; even fewer reach and complete higher levels of education. Learning outcomes have been persistently poor, leading to substantial gaps in basic cognitive skills—literacy and numeracy—among children, young people, and adults. The literacy rate of the adult population is below 50 percent in many countries; functional literacy and numeracy rates are even lower. Systemwide change is required to achieve significant progress. Multiple agencies at the central and local levels are involved in skills development strategies, making skills “everyone’s problem but no one’s responsibility.†? Policies and reforms need to build capacity for evidence-based policies and create incentives to align the behaviors of all stakeholders with the pursuit of national skills development goals. The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability lays out evidence to inform the policy choices that countries will make in skill investments. Each chapter addresses a set of specific questions, drawing on original analysis and synthesis of existing studies to explore key areas: • How the skills appropriate to each stage of the life cycle are acquired and what market and institutional failures affect skills formation • What systems are needed for individuals to access these skills, including family investments, private sector institutions, schools, and other public programs • How those systems can be strengthened • How the most vulnerable individuals—those who fall outside the standard systems and have missed critical building blocks in skills acquisition—can be supported. Countries will face trade-offs—often stark ones—that will have distributional impacts and a bearing on their development path. Committed leaders, reform coalitions, and well-coordinated policies are essential for taking on the skills balancing act in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Education and Development written by Muna B. Ndulo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance. Using case studies and experiences from different parts of the continent, this book assesses how the potential for human resources, in terms of education, can be leveraged in the development process to achieve equity, inclusive development and governance outcomes in Africa. This book builds on the "resource curse" to focus on human resources as an alternative paradigm to sustainable development in Africa. At a time when concerns over access to quality education is an important issue among policy makers and international development agents, this timely project calls attention to one of the most critical aspects of development in Africa.
Download or read book Science and Technology Policy for Economic Development in Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume present a broad canvas of science and technology policies as instruments of social and economic development, record the progress that has been made, and identify and analyze the problems that remain to be solved. Contributors are Aqueil Ahmad, Charles H. Davies, Thomas Owen Eisemon, John W. Forje, Jacques Gaillard, Eric L. Hyman, John E. Udo Ndebbio, Fola Osotimehin, Aaron Segal, Scott Tiffin, Paul B. Vitta, and Roland Waast.
Download or read book Education Society and Development written by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
