ABSTRACT
Education makes individuals more productive in an economic sense. They are more able to contribute to the development of the local and national economy. That the economic contribution of an educated person is normally greater than that of an uneducated person is evident in the public and private demand for education, as discussed in Chapter 1, and in the income rewards to educated people. Since education is widely taken to be a prime mechanism for economic development in any country in the Third World, it is to an economic perspective on education, schooling and training that this chapter turns. It considers how different approaches to the education and training of the population can affect the nature and pace of development, and develops two rather different examples, from Pakistan and Kenya, to substantiate the argument in the broader context of human resource development.
