Can the World Develop? The Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Education

Munich Seminar on 25 June 2018 with Prof. Eric A. Hanushek, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. www.ifo.de/w/4MizFG7ND The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations include ending poverty, eliminating hunger, and achieving gender equality. They are very ambitious, but impossible to achieve without economic growth and development. And economic development requires improved education. This talk discusses the fundamental relationship between growth and skills of the population and then considers how educational performance can be improved. Interview    • Interview: Can the World Develop? The Sust...   ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V.