Using both quantitative and qualitative indicators of a few key parameters that define educational development, such as literacy, enrollment ratios in primary, secondary and higher levels of education, out-of-school children, inequalities, quality of teachers, public funding, international aid...

Empirical research has shown that cultural values matter for economic growth and has specifically identified the achievement motivation as an aspect of culture that engenders economic growth. If specific cultural values engender economic growth, how then can societies promote them? This paper...