In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country’s development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann...

Der Einsatz des Milliardensegens ist nicht geregelt - dass die Mittel den bedürftigsten Einrichtungen zukommen, darf bezweifelt werden. Die Ziele des Bildungsgipfels, etwa die Zahl der Schulabbrecher bis 2015 zu halbieren, wären nur durch langfristige Investitionen zu erreichen. Mündet das...

"Educating for the Knowledge Economy The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give...

"Around the turn of the 21st century, new social policies started to develop all around the world. Bolsa Familia in Brazil, Progresa in Mexico, Superémonos in Costa Rica, Juntos in Peru... almost all Latin American countries have developed "conditional cash transfers" (CCTs), a new type of...