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When education promises mobility but delivers credential inflation

I keep reading about how education is the pathway out of poverty but the educated people in my community are either unemployed or working jobs that do not use their skills.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Educational investment can lose value when economic structures do not create opportunities for skill utilization.

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“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”

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