Kosovo: Education and Economic Growth

At some point in life, everyone has been in situations when parents have repeatedly stressed that education is paramount to one’s development. At the time, one is unable to realize the significance that academic development could have on a wider social and national extent. The introduction of the first steam engine in 18th century - the Industrial Revolution -resulted in prosperity in almost all areas of life first in the United Kingdom, and later in the rest of the Western Europe, which shaped a new worldview, placing education as one of the top measures to consider, when determining a country’s growth. Plenty examples of different countries in varying times through history, illustrate how increased levels of investment in education have been pivotal to the economic development in the long-run. The case of Kosovo, unfortunately, is similar to the countries that were late or for different political reasons were not able to make good use of this already established and proven relationship. By looking at the successes of other countries in having education as a tool to increase the involvement of youth in economy and to foster entrepreneurial spirit among them, this essay will focus on how these examples could be adapted to the case of Kosovo, for it to achieve higher rates of growth in the long run.

Before going into argumentation however, it is important to define both education and economic development in the context of their relation to clarify the standards used to draw the final conclusion of the essay. Many dictionaries define education as the process of gaining knowledge and economic development as the social and technological reformations taking place in a country’s economy . The combination of these two definitions gives...

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