Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa

Autor/inn/en	Nhamo, Senia; Nhamo, Godwell
Titel	Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa
Quelle	In: International Review of Education, 52 (2006) 3-4, S.305-322 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/s11159-006-0009-6
Schlagwörter	Macroeconomics; Adult Education; Poverty; Foreign Countries; Hunger; World Problems; Developing Nations; International Cooperation; Financial Support; Human Capital; Economic Progress; Income; Africa; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Makroökonomie; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Armut; Ausland; Weltproblem; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Finanzielle Förderung; Humankapital; Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Einkommen; Afrika
Abstract	The Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000 outlined the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The first of these involves the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, setting two targets: halving by 2015 the percentage of the world's populace in 1990 with income less than US-$1 a day (i.e., cutting this percentage from 27.9 to 14%); and halving the share of people who suffer from hunger. As for education, the MDGs seek to ensure that all children can complete primary schooling by 2015. Drawing on examples from selected southern African countries, the present study examines the need to strengthen economic support for (adult) education as an instrument of poverty eradication. It argues that human capital is one of the fundamental determinants of economic growth, and that this economic resource is essentially determined in both qualitative and quantitative regards by education. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10