Higher education in low- and middle-income countries

What do we know, and what do we need to know, about higher education in low- and middle-income countries?

If you go to college in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC), how does it help you, and what do you get from it? Two questions that would seem to have obvious answers – but these questions may be more complicated for policymakers to answer than they seem. On this episode of VoxDevTalks, Jishnu Das tells Tim Phillips that “the demographic dividend seems to be turning into a demographic nightmare” – and what researchers and policymakers can do about it.

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