An Analysis of the Link Between Education and the First Demographic Dividend of Bangladesh
Islam, Shahidul | June 2017
Abstract
The study attempts to examine the role of education in Bangladesh in the first demographic dividend, which is characterized by a youth bulge. The study contributes a novel argument to the literature on the estimation of the demographic dividend; the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology (2013), which is applied to a more disaggregated dataset, can characterize a population more meaningfully compared with a conventional practice. The findings of the paper shed light on the debate on the sources of the first demographic dividend—whether this dividend comes from a pure age structure factor or represents an education dividend. Our study uses a methodology that is similar to the NTA methodology and applies the Das Gupta (1993) method to decompose the dividend into an education effect and an age effect. When the economic profiles are further disaggregated by levels of education, the Economic Support Ratio (ESR) decreases and becomes more representative. The major results include the facts that the size of the dividend is lower and driven by an age effect, with a finding of a negative education effect in Bangladesh for the past decades.
Citation
Islam, Shahidul. 2017. An Analysis of the Link Between Education and the First Demographic Dividend of Bangladesh. © Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/10114.Keywords
Vocational Education
Technical Education
Investment In Education
Asian Development Bank
Aid And Development
Asian Development Bank
Comprehensive Development Framework
Development Cooperation
Development Management
Development Planning
Development Strategies
Development In East Asia
Development Planning
Development Research
Training programs
Vocational training
Training methods
Economic growth
Higher education institutions
Economics of education
Educational theory
Education
Higher Education
Labor Market
Training
Out of school education
Alternative education
Educational policy
Educational planning
Educational aspects
Rural planning
Aid coordination
Industrial projects
Infrastructure projects
Natural resources policy
Educational development
Development strategy
Development models
Training methods
Communication in technical education
Vocational school students
Partnership
Capitalism and education
Counseling in higher education
Community and college
Tutors and tutoring
Educational change
Educational innovations
Total quality management in education
Educational accountability
Homebound instruction
Communication in rural development
Communication in community development
Economic development projects
Development banks
Economic forecasting
Environmental auditing
Cumulative effects assessment
Human rights and globalization
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