W7 - Human Capital: Education and Health

Question 1

What is the relationship between education and development?

Answer 1

• Builds social capital and affects values
• Increases productivity, improves health outcomes

Question 2

What is the relationship between employment and development?

Answer 2

• Only job growth in developing countries is in the informal sector
• Employability is linked to education (human capital)

Question 3

Give an overview of rural labour markets

Answer 3

Unskilled rural labour has no alternative
De agrarianisation is creating a rural working class and leads to stress migration to cities
Must coordinate migration flows

Question 4

Give an overview of urban labour markets

Answer 4

Low skilled workers end up in service jobs as they don’t have the industrial skills so need to create low skill industrial jobs going down the value chain or vice versa

Question 5

Romers model and how he adapted it later

Answer 5

in models flashcards refer back may need to edit

Question 6

Solow model

Answer 6

In models flashcards

Question 7

What does Becker and Bourdieu say about the role of education?

Answer 7

Becker - investments made to improve economic outcomes

Bourdieu - State provides education to maintain social order

Question 8

What is the relationship between a higher % of budget spent on public health and child mortality rates?

Answer 8

Similar mortality rates
Focus on low cost high impact interventions such as oral rehydration

Question 9

What is the relationship between mothers education and child mortality rates?

Answer 9

Children of higher educated mums more likely to survive infancy, better education mums also have more say in family planning.