Essay review of "World Crisis in Education" by Philip H. Coombs. (Oxford University Press, 1985) NOTE: This article should be read in conjunction with the document titled Foreign Aid and Higher Education in Africa: With a Special Focus on the World Bank (available here on slideshare.net) by the same author. Some of the theoretical issues pertaining to economics of education that appear in this article here are covered in greater detail in that document.

1. Education
and National
Development
The Continuing
Problem of
Misdiagnosis and
Irrelevant
Prescriptions

2. Education and National
Development:
The Continuing Problem of
Misdiagnosis and Irrelevant
Prescriptions
Dear Reader:
Even though the attached review article was published
many years ago, the awful tragedy is that the issues
identified in it are still as relevant today as they were when
the article was first published; and, in fact, may have gotten
worse. (Note that in the original there was a publisher error
in the first letter of the author’s last name on the first page
of the article, hence the spelling appears in it as Yulat.)
This article should be read in conjunction with the
document titled “Foreign Aid and Higher Education in
Africa: With a Special Focus on the World Bank” (available
here on slideshare.net), by the same author, because some
of the theoretical issues pertaining to economics of
education that appear in this article are covered in greater
detail in that document. To locate that document copy this
URL into your browser:
http://www.slideshare.net/elegantbrain/foreign-aid-and-higher-education-in-africa

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NOTE: This article should be read in conjunction with a document
titled "Foreign Aid and Higher Education in Africa: With a Special
Focus on the World Bank" (available here on slideshare.net), by
the same author, because some of the theoretical issues
pertaining to economics of education that appear in this article are
covered in greater detail in that document. To locate that
document copy this URL into your browser:
http://www.slideshare.net/elegantbrain/foreign-aid-and-higher-education-in-africa