Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa

By David E. Bloom, David Canning, Kevin J Chan. 2006

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• Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education (2015, background): “To its credit, the World Bank did sponsor studies such as Bloom et al. (2006), which empirically demonstrated a relationship between investment in higher education and an improvement in gross domestic product in Africa.”
• Understanding the concept of the entrepreneurial university from the perspective of higher education models (2014, background): “Bloom, Canning, and Chan (2006) emphasize the importance of higher education to enable countries to catch up with technologically advanced societies in the knowledge-based economy, as Welch (2011, p. 4) writes “… higher education is universally acknowledged as a key pillar in constructing the new…”