How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the … universal basic skills amounts to over $ 700 trillion over the remaining century, or 11% of discounted GDP. …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the … universal basic skills amounts to over $700 trillion over the remaining century, or 11% of discounted GDP. …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the … universal basic skills amounts to over $700 trillion over the remaining century, or 11% of discounted GDP. …

concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school … provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive … skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. - Hanushek …

develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …