首页
登录
职称英语
The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countr
The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countr
游客
2025-04-08
42
管理
问题
The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.Progress in both areas is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies, however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.We are fortunate that it is, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.
Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States.Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.The U.S.workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S.economic performance.Japan was, and remains, the global leader in automotive-assembly productivity.Yet the research revealed that the U.S.factories of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese counterparts—a result of the training that U.S.workers received on the job.
More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.
What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.After all, that’s how education got started.When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.
As education improved, humanity’s productivity potential increased as well.When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.A lack of formal education, however, doesn’t constrain the ability of the developing world’s workforce to substantially improve productivity to the forested future.On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn’t developing more quickly there than it is. [br] The author quotes the example of our ancestors to show that education emerged______.
选项
A、when people had enough time
B、prior to better ways of finding food
C、when people on longer went hung
D、as a result of pressure on government
答案
C
解析
本题可参照文章第4段。通过阅读第4段,我们了解到在人类祖先开始更有效地获取食物后,他们才有时间考虑猎取食物以外的其他事情。也就是在这个时候,教育才开始被人们纳入考虑范围并得以发展和重视。因此C项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4031283.html
相关试题推荐
______ofhalf-starvingwolveswereroamingthesnow-coveredcountryside.A、Swarms
Thetreatyrequestthatallthemembercountries______withthepriceandsharet
Developingapeaceful,understanding,andsupportiverelationshipbetweenpa
Developingapeaceful,understanding,andsupportiverelationshipbetweenpa
Developingapeaceful,understanding,andsupportiverelationshipbetweenpa
Developingapeaceful,understanding,andsupportiverelationshipbetweenpa
Thehospitaldeniesthereisanyconnectionbetweenthedisciplinaryactionand
Atthemomentsheis______thenetballmatchbetweentheJapaneseteamandtheCu
Couldthebadolddaysofeconomicdeclinebeabouttoreturn?SinceOPECag
Couldthebadolddaysofeconomicdeclinebeabouttoreturn?SinceOPECag
随机试题
AlittleboyinSouthCarolinagottocelebratehisbirthdaytwice:Afte
[A]excessively[I]degradation[B]collectively[J]neutralize[C]positiv
[originaltext]W:OK,tenpencilscometoatotalof3dollarsand50cents.M:
关于偶然性和必然性、可预测性和不可预测性,你同意下面哪些说法?()A.豌豆荚中
采用抗痉挛的方法是A.抗痉挛体位 B.重拍痉挛肌 C.抗阻肌力训练 D.痉
患儿女,11岁,口腔卫生差,双侧上下颌乳磨面广泛浅龋,松(-),叩(-)该患儿患
零售乙类非处方药的商业企业必须经A.县级以上药品监督管理部门批准B.省级药品监督
陈先生认为吸烟与健康之间并无太大关系,原因是在其认识的人当中,好几个患有肺癌的
被誉为“短篇小说之王”的作家是()。 A.莫泊桑B.屠格涅夫C.左拉D
甲是药品上市许可持有人,依法持有甲钴胺片等药品品种; 乙是药品生产企业,生产范
最新回复
(
0
)