Education in Developing Countries
The discipline of "economics of education," presently growing so rapidly on the bases of pedagogy and economics, has been supplemented by yet another interesting work. This monograph by G. E. Skorov, based on his doctoral dissertation, is the largest of our published works dedicated to the economics of education in the Third World (G. E. Skorov, The Developing Countries: Education, Employment, Economic Growth, Moscow, "Nauka" Publishing House, 1971). It summarizes everything that has been done in this field up to the present and mentions some of the basic directions for future research. The entire set of economic-pedagogical problems of the developing countries is brought under analysis here. The titles of the chapters indicate the contents of the book: "Education and Economic Development," "The Contemporary Condition and Trends in the Development of Education," "Methods and Practices in the Planning of Education," "Questions of the Cost and Financing of Education," "Problems of the Employment of Labor Re...