The Effect of Education on Poverty in Egypt

The effect of Education on Poverty in Egypt

Research Methodology Paper

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2

2. Literature review 3

2.1 Education 3

2.1.1 Types of education 4

2.1.1.1 General education 4

2.1.1.2 Vocational education 5

2.1.2 Factors affecting education 7

2.1.2.1 Educational quality 7

2.1.2.2 Teachers effectiveness 7

2.2 Poverty 9

2.2.1 Types of poverty 9

2.2.2 Determinants of poverty 10

2.2.2.1 Income 10

2.2.2.2 Socio-economic factors: 11

2.2.3 Poverty profile in Egypt 11

2.3. The effect of education on poverty in Egypt 13

2.3.1 Raising Human capital on poverty 13

2.3.2 The effect of poor environments on education 14

2.3.3 The relationship between economic growth and education in Egypt 14

2.4 Research Gap 15

3 Methodology 15

4. Conclusion 20

5. References 22

6. Appendix 24

Table of Figures

Figure 1 13

1. Introduction

Nowadays, many economists have argued that there is a strong relationship between education and poverty. Poverty has been recently one of the main concerns of researchers and economists, as it’s the source of freedom to individuals and fundamental human rights (Hogan 2006: 253,260). While education is a fundamental right to all human beings, it helps everyone since their early ages to increase their knowledge, and to develop strong personality (Richter and Mcphersonb 2012:206).The focus of this paper is to discuss how education may affect poverty in Egypt.

In addition, this paper proves that there is an inversely proportional relationship between the increase in the level of education and the poverty rate in Egypt. As it was proven in (CAPMAS website, 2011) there is an inversely proportional relationship between education and poverty, by increasing the rate of education; eventually the rate of poverty