Education and development
Subtitle: measuring the social benefits
By: Walter W. McMahon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects; Education -- Social aspects; Economic development -- Effect of education on
Description: "This book develops a new approach to measuring the total returns to human resource development through investment in education. Drawing on microanalytic foundations, it uses regional and worldwide data to estimate the net marginal contributions of education and new knowledge both to economic growth and to wider effects on democratization, human rights, political stability, health, longevity, net population growth rates, reduction of poverty, inequality in income distribution, crime, drug use, and the environment."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.