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Investing in the Future
Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments
The goal of this chapter is to explore the role that policies aimed at human capital investments through education and training have played in poverty alleviation in the past, and their potential for further poverty reduction in the future.
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Published in: Understanding Poverty / Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman (New York: Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), Chapter 9, p. 314-356, 507-552.
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