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Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development / Rodney Ramcharan.

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Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Ramcharan, Rodney.
Series:
IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/036
IMF Working Papers
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (43 pages)
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy promote? This paper develops an analytical framework to address this question. It shows how the composition of human capital stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on development. In addition to identifying some characteristics of an optimal education policy, the paper helps in understanding why empirical studies have failed to find a significant relationship between schooling and growth.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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ISBN:
9786613787965
9781462311712
1462311717
9781451985467
1451985460
9781281607256
1281607258
9781451892949
1451892942

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