by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where …

up until World War I, then sharply dropped during the twentieth century following World War shocks, and have been rising …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …

presented here alongside the UNDP’s HDI for the world and its main regions since the late nineteenth century. Social dimensions …