Education, training and their enabling environments: a review of research and policy

A strong post-primary education sector is necessary to achieve positive developmental outcomes from expanded basic education

By: King R & Palmer R
Published by: Centre of African Studies (CAS), Edinburgh , 2006
Via: Eldis

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 improved gender equity. This working paper examines the validity of these claims through taking a closer look at one of the original sources of this much-repeated assertion, and then looks at how these claims have been used since then in agency and academic policy. It then draws on a wider literature to identify the conditions under which increased education does indeed produce positive effects on development.