During the second half of the 20th century Asia as a whole experienced a much higher increase in production by inhabitant than Africa, due to several factors which caused improvements in industrial development and moderation in the rates of population growth. We present a comparison, at area...

We compare the economic development of Asia-Pacific countries in the 20th century with world average, and analyse the evolution of education, fertility, population and economic growth in Asia-Pacific countries at the end of the 20th century, showing that, after centuries of slow economic...

The paper presents a general view of the educational level of population and its relation to economic development in African countries. We present a comparative view of production by sector and by inhabitant, external trade, years of schooling and fertility rates, by country and by large areas,...

Presentamos un analisis comparativo de la evolucion economica de China y la India, en comparacion con otros paises asiaticos como Indonesia, Japon, Corea, Filipinas, y algunos pequeños paises y territorios de Asia Oriental con elevado nivel de desarrollo, analizando los principales factores que...

Se presenta un analisis comparativo del crecimiento de la produccion en Africa y en otras areas del mundo durante el siglo veinte, destacando el deficit educativo como la causa principal del exceso de crecimiento demografico y de la pobreza de la mayoria de los paises africanos. Se presenta...

El objetivo del estudio es analizar las diferencias de desarrollo economico existentes entre los paises latinoamericanos, teniendo en cuenta su situacion en 1980 y la evolucion durante el periodo 1980-99. En el analisis econometrico se combinan datos de 22 paises y se mide el impacto de la...

The aim of this article is to point out the importance of education on a sustained economic development strategy, having into account inter-sector relations and the influence of education in the growth of production per head. Three cross-country models are presented. The first model relates the...