17.2% of Africa’s Growth Attributable to Education, Say Experts

The ISS African Futures Project policy brief, Knowledge Empowers Africa, has some exciting news for education advocates. It’s been known for some time now that investment in education is a sure-fire way to improve the lives of people in the developing world as well as the economies they contribute to. In this new report, education and economics expert George Psacharopoulus points out an explicit connection between investment in education and an increase in wages for the educated:

He attributes a full 17.2% of Africa’s economic growth to educational initiatives.

This is yet another Useful Statistic for champions of education in the developing world, and highlights the importance of education as a vital piece of any development strategy.

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Written by Michael Jones