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Education and the changing world economy: The imperative of reform

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Original language: English

Nicholas R. Burnett (United Kingdom) Principal Economist, Human Development Department, World Bank. He is the main author of and led the team that producedPriorities and strategies for education: a World Bank review, which is summarized here.

Harry Anthony Patrinos (Canada) Economist, Human Development Department, World Bank; previously with the Economic Council of Canada. He received his doctorate from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. His publications include:Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America (with George Psacharopoulos) and articles on ethnicity, the economics of education, poverty and labour market outcomes.

Paper prepared for the round-table on ‘Education, Labour Markets, Development and the World Bank’, at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, San Francisco, California, 5–7 January 1996.

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Burnett, N., Patrinos, H.A. Education and the changing world economy: The imperative of reform. Prospects 27, 223–230 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02737167

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