International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 12, December-2014
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The impact of Education on Poverty
Reduction in South Asia
Emad Mubarak
Poverty in the world of today has had negative consequences on people’s life. In any society that has a high
percentage of poor citizens, we see different diseases associated with it due to several reasons such as lack
of education. Education is the gate for bright future, and it can change the way that people think about
their life, and how they do things efficiently. Education can increase the people awareness about different
aspect in their daily life; it teaches them different methods to stay healthy and stay away from diseases that
could happen as a result of lack of knowledge. Education can help in reducing the number of poor people
in any society. It will give them the opportunity to gain new knowledge and develop their skills in
different fields.
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shows the deep impact among the society
The success of any nation is based upon the level
of education among their citizen. In the world of
today, it is important for every country to invest
more in their people through education.
Education is the powerful weapon that can
contribute in the development of any nation
globally. Also, education helps to accomplish
deep and long-‐‑life change by enhancing skills
and ability of people to think beyond their needs
and try to work on them. There are different
types of education such as basic education and
vocational education.
This research will investigate the relationship
between education and how it can helps to
reduce poverty in south Asia, India and Pakistan,
Any person who wishes to gain extra knowledge
about education and poverty will benefit from
the executive report finding by being able to see
how the education can work effectively to
minimize the poverty among people.
Eight sources are included in this
research to investigate the relationship between
Education and poverty in developing countries
such as India and Pakistan, and how education
can help young generation to learn new skills
that will help them to be out of poverty. From
the literature found, answers to the following
questions were found:
1) Does the education help to reduce
poverty rate?
2) Does the skills that student learn
through education help to increase
income leader?
The following hypotheses are put
forward to study:
1. Education helps to reduce poverty rate
in developing countries such as India
and Pakistan.
2. Education helps to learn new skills that can
help people increase their income.
Articles and case studies were examined to present the information in this report. The finding presented will show what education can do in order to solve this problem, and how it can
make huge change. The cited information shown comes from credible and valid and scholarly sources. The findings will be summarized in an outline for the education and poverty and how it
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Education is the gate to create a bright future to all humans. It is a need to everyone as food and others necessities. Education can play significant role to change any nation dignity because it provide the basic roles to understand the things that surrounding us, and learn how to deal with it positively. Also, it raises the awareness level of people about importance of be educated to contribute in development of nation. The social impact of education to women is decreasing mortality rate that will help women
to understand how they deal with this issue.
Durston & Nashire (2001) stated, “one year of a
mother’s education being associated with a 9%
decrease in under-‐‑éve mortality”. Moreover,
education can families to be out of poverty, and
improve their quality of life, which will
contribute in economy development. Educate
those who could effect changes in policies that
could significantly reduce, perhaps even
alleviate, these conditions of deprivation within
which many live out their entire lives (Dhillon,
2011).
Education is the Instrument of livelihood nowadays. Poverty and educated people don’t stay together. Through education people can learn many skills that help them to use their ability to improve their lives. It enables them to enter the job market, and get the jobs that match their skills. According to Durston & Nashire (2001) mentioned, “Education raises the productivity of the poor’s major asset, their labour, and results in higher income. The educated poor are more likely to adopt new technologies, hence get a higher return on their land, and to link into a wider range of self-‐‑ employment opportunities”. Education has a direct impact to reduce poverty because it helps people to earn money and raise their income. In developing countries, Investing in education to teach children has positive returns on everyone. Awan &others (2011) said” Investment in education, Increases the skills and productivity
of poor households. It enhances the income level as well as the overall standard of living (human development). The social return of investment in education at developing countries is much
higher than the rich countries (Awan &others,
2011). Tarabini & Jacovkis (2012) said,
“Investment in education makes it possible to
empower the poor, to enhance their opportunities and to increase their capacity to create income and participate in economic growth.
The educated people have higher opportunity to maximize their income in developing countries such as Pakistan. Investment in education makes it possible to empower the poor, to enhance their opportunities and to increase their capacity to create income and participate in economic growth (Tarabini & Jacovkis, 2011). For example, in Pakistan; it has been found that monthly earnings of an individual worker increased by
7.3 percent with an additional year of schooling (Awan &others, 2011). So the more you learn, the more benefit will come to you. According Awan
&others (2011) to Each additional year of
schooling level increased earnings by 3 percent at
primary level, by 5 percent at secondary level,
and by 7.1 to 8.2percent at higher/tertiary level.
Each additional year of technical training
increased earnings by 2.5 percent. Therefore, it is
quite evident that education can increase the
earning potential of the poor and they become
productive. These evidences show the
relationship between education and poverty
reduction.
The literature researched provided answers to the relationship between education and poverty reduction; and how education play impactful role to decrease the poverty rate in developing
countries. The implications of the findings of this research are that the link between learning new skills and earing more money and be out of poverty as result.
There are two cases researched that illustrated
successful applications of education in
developing countries. It provides facts and
statistic of out come of education and how it
affects the quality of life for poor community.
This research examines the importance of education in developing countries and how to learn new skills can be gate out of poverty. This report also examines studying one more
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schooling year, and how it has high return on people when they get a job. The implications of findings suggest that the more learning opportunities in developing countries such as India and Pakistan, the higher chance to get high salary and promoting in work place.
The recommendation is to invest more in people through education to teach them new skills and enable them to earn money, which can be used to lead to successful change. The education reform should include the following:
1. Basic education that give people the chance to
learn the basics skills such as reading and
writing.
2. Improve higher education system because it will
let student learn different sciences and skills that
will be beneficial to them
3. Concentrate on vocation training program can
have meaningful impact on people because they
will learn advanced skills.
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