Education and Development

Knowledge-based growth is a central feature of the modern world, and education has a vital part to play. Education generates not only direct personal gains to individuals and families, but also external social benefits that assist others in the society, as well as future generations. In short, its role is critical in determining the level and rate of a nation'¬"s growth and development. Many scholars, other researchers, and policy-makers are now undertaking serious work that seeks to define, measure, and estimate the relative value of human capital formation through education in the economic development process. While some countries have produced an educated labour force, lowered their rates of reproduction through widespread female education, replaced raw-material exports with skill-intensive ones, reduced poverty and inequality, strengthened civic institutions and democracy, and improved individual health, life-expectancy, and happiness'¬ ;all development outcomes on which education has important effects'¬ ;many other countries have not. Too many states remain at subsistence level with high rates of population growth and a burden of starvation borne mostly by children and those in rural villages. What strategies have the former countries followed that the latter have not? To enable users to answer this question and make sense of the subject'¬"s vast and complex multidisciplinary literature, as well as the continuing explosion in research output, Routledge is pleased to announce this new addition to its acclaimed Major Themes in Education series. Edited by a leading scholar in the field'¬ ;in consultation with other international leading experts from Japan, India, the UK, the US, and elsewhere'¬ ;Education and Developmentis a four-volume collection that brings together in one easy-to-use '¬Ümini library'¬" the foundational and the very best contemporary scholarship. Volume I explores '¬ÜEducation and Growth'¬", while Volume II assembles the key scholarship on '¬ÜEducation and Development Outcomes Beyond Growth'¬". Volume III focuses on '¬ÜThe Dynamics of Education and Development'¬" and the final volume in the collection is organized around '¬ÜEducation Policy and Finance'¬". Together, they present the theoretical framework of how education contributes to development; the evidence about the significance of each effect and causality at the micro level; empirical estimates of the macro impacts of education and their value for development; and discussion of their interaction and the cumulative dynamic build-up over time that constitutes knowledge-based development. A newly written editorial introduction to the whole collection explicates the field'¬"s critical concepts and places the gathered materials in a logical context. Separate thematically specific introductions to each of the four component volumes are also included. And with a full index and chronological table of contents, the collection is destined to be valued by specialists in education and development and scholars working in related areas'¬ ;as well as by policy-makers and professionals'¬ ;as a vital one-stop research tool.