Analyze the Effects of Education on Development of Countries

Analyze the Effects of Education on Development of Countries

In the past few years, many countries are in the high speed of development process. During this competitive period, the demand for talent worldwide is increasing rapidly. The governments are gradually aware of the importance in investing in education to improve their governance. For instance, around the world 78 percent of children graduated from primary school in 2000, while by 2005 this figure rose to 83 percent (Brown, 2008). Education is now considered at the top priority in a nation’s development. There is not an overstatement that each country needs an education system which is adapted to the condition of a country. Moreover, every country is still mapping out a road towards a proper education system. In this long transition, education has brought many effects to the development on economy, politics and society. This essay will examine each of these three key points individually and consider how education has affected the development of countries.

Education is important to the individual’s economy. There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor at present all over the world. Poverty seems to be inherited, and the majority of these poor are the children of people who lived in poverty and are not able to acquire knowledge as equally as the rich peers do. The result of this is that poor children have to struggle to compete with adults to gain jobs. However, there is a solution which is offering poor children basic knowledge, because the education is the main key to getting rid of the condition of poverty (Brown, 2008). Education is very important to a child’s future development. A good education will be the cornerstone where future employment opportunities and good chances are established (Plan, 2008). Evidence shows that, more years of schooling leads to higher income. For instance, for rural residents, education can help them make more resources available to use, such as to produce more efficiently on their land, to sell surplus crops, or to manage the budget of their household.

The failure to solve problems on educating individuals well will lead to an enormous negative impact on the whole country’s economy, because hundreds of thousands of us individuals make up a big family, our country. In particularly, failure to educate girls will hamper the development of the country’s economy. PLAN which is one of the world’s largest aid and development organizations, conducted an analysis which showed that about 65 developing countries failed to educate their girls as equal as boys. The result of this is that these countries were losing on economic growth of every year about an estimated $92 billion (OECD, 2008). However, if government devotes itself to increase the number of girls receiving education, numbers of studies has shown that it will have a positive effect on increasing a country’s per capita economic growth (King