Educational+Economic+Impact

Globalization and international trade heavily depend upon competition. Who can make the best material? How much of it can they make? And it all comes down to education. This is where countries can run a hegemony over one another in the global economy. One big statistic in calculating what the economy will be in a certain nation, depends on the education and training of the workers within the nation. This is why the economy so heavily relies on the basis of a solid education. Also, a workers salary is usually based off of his education and training. The more educated and trained he is the higher the amount he will be paid. These factors determine a workers productivity and overall knowledge on a certain topic. That which is his job.  Next, employers seek people who are extremely good and require not much guidance. In school, these lessons are taught. Through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and social modeling, classmates and teachers provide all of these skill for students to aquire. This set of social skills and knowledge are so simple, but yet so __esscential__ to getting a job. And as made public by political figures, getting and creating jobs are ways of __creating__ economic stimulation. But since may children and adults in Africa lack a formal education, they don't have many opportunities and a lot of jobs can't be outsourced or created in Africa.

** Reasons why education is effecting the economy, and the economy is affecting education **  1. One reason Africa is falling behind in education is that it doesn’t have the technology other places have in their education. Africa can’t find people in the science and technology field because nobody has had training or experience with them. In America, students interact with technology everyday. This is why the technological developments are coming from countries like America, China, and Japan. But with Africa's struggling economy, there is no room to provide more than basic needs for students. And because of the lack of technology in schools, Africa never has __had__ the chance to help the world advance in this field.  2. Another problem facing Africa is women in education. In Africa, women are thought to be essential for their cooking and work around the house. The women have to clean up for the men who are usually out doing their jobs. But in recent years, Africa has been promoting the involvement of women in education. This is a great step forward, but still women have not been attending school. This issue is because of early marriage in Africa. Once a women is married, there is just no time to complete a formal education. And as we have seen in many countries, women have a major role in the economy because they can get jobs and spend money just like men can. To finish, a benefit of educating women is that they usually do not apply for a job dealing with manual labor. This means more buisnesses in Africa will have workers and the buisnesses will have room to grow. And men can still occupy jobs dealing with labor.  3. A major reason Africa has also been struggling is because they can't fund __an__ education because of the way the economy is. There isn't enough money to supply food and water, as well as a formal education. African governments can't afford to build school houses and then fill them with supplies. And because of this Africa is stuck in a cycle of confusion. The confusion is because they know that educated workers wil improve the __economy,__ but they are stuck because they can't afford to pay for educations. In Sudan, there was a go-to-school initiative and over 400,000 more students showed up to school after it was created. This statistic shows us that children are willing to go to school, it is just a matter of having one avaliable. 4. Next, Africa is struggling because the pace at which its leaders want its economy to move. Studies have shown the African leaders that providing a formal education will help fix the economy. But some leaders are not willing to fund schooling because they think it involves top of the line facilities and prestigious universities. If these leaders were to take it one step at a time and steadily increase the number of quality places which provide formal education throughout Africa, Africa's economy would slowly rise until it began to reach the world leaders.

 One common thing I saw in Somalia’s economy was that there were not many jobs dealing with higher intelligence. The main job was dealing with agriculture, which is the main export and deals with manual labor. And then the small buisnesses in Somalia dealt with the agriculture. This is where I truly believe Somalia must step in and help. They need to continue to produce agricultural goods, but add in education which will create higher level jobs and improve the infrastructure. Formal education is Somalia is barely existent, so if they can invest in education, they can build their telecommunications, as well as their economy.
 * Somalia**

 Once again there were not many high level jobs. The main money maker in Seychelles is tourism. They construct hotels and travel excursions which make their country a lot of money. But other than tourism, their jobs deal with fishing, farming, and small manufacturing plants. I think this could be because the country relies to much on tourism, and too little on education. Tourism can be affected at any time, but learning will not be stopped. Over the past couple years, aid organizations have played a huge role in the developement of education in Africa. Donors have supplied African students with a countless amount of materials, as well as support when things go wrong. Personally, I believe these organizations are doing great things because they are really helping Africa. The governments are able to spend money on differnent things, while the students are still getting a decent education. I just hope the donations these organizations are using are providing a good enough education so that the students of today in Africa, can fix the economy of tomorrow in Africa  One author draws the conclusion that as more people go to school, things other than the economy have been improving. It has not been the economy that has shown growth right away, but things like health care and democracy has greatly improved. This is interesting because if these other institutions are being improved, then it can't be much longer until the economy explodes with growth.
 * Seychelles**
 * Donations**
 * An Interesting point**