Education and the Role of Urban Deprived Youth in Economic Development

Abstract

Economic studies that attempt to explain or describe the process of economic development in Latin America often overlook the participation of youth. Such studies generally address themselves to such problems as capital formation, investments in natural and human resources, foreign trade, population, and agriculture. Problems faced by the youth within the development process are usually oversimplified or treated as insignificant. For example, the works of Higgins, Kindleberger, Lewis, and Myrdal cover a vast number of economic development topics. But Myrdal's work is the only one that even lightly dwells on the problems faced by youth in the development process. Yet it is today's youth who will be tomorrow's participants in the development process and it is today's youth who must be counted on to solve the existing problems experienced in the development process—shortage of savings, shortage of educational and social services, housing shortages, and all the other problems inherent in a developing country.

Citation

Walter, J.P. and Leahy, W.H. (1975), "Education and the Role of Urban Deprived Youth in Economic Development", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 2-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013772