Inter-American Development Bank 27d ago

Voices on human capital: Investing Today. Transforming Tomorrow. Unlocking Human Capital as the Engine for Growth in Suriname. How many years of schooling does a country need to grow? According to Eric Hanushek, that's the wrong question. The Stanford economist — one of the world's foremost authorities on the economics of education — has spent decades proving that it's not the time students spend in classrooms that drives a country's development, but the quality of the learning that happens there. His concept of knowledge capital — the actual cognitive skills of a population — reframes how Suriname should measure educational progress and direct its investments in human capital. In this episode, Hanushek explains why improving teacher quality may be the single most powerful economic decision a developing nation can make. Visit the events website https://surinameeduconference.com/ #IDB #Improvinglives #IDBImpact+ #InvestingTodayTransformingTomorrow #SurinameEducation #HumanCapital #EducationForAll At the Inter-American Development Bank we work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.iadb.org