LSE Seminar: Population, Education and Development
“Population, Education and Development: Addressing the Interactions”
LSE Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Lutz
Leader, World Population Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Chair: Prof. Mike Murphy, Professor of Demography, LSE
Abstract:
Education is a key determinant if international development. This Seminar
presents new projections of populations by age, sex and four levels of
educational attainment for more than 120 countries and a series of population-
development-environment (PDE) case studies that comprehensively assess the
role of population and education relative to other factors in the struggle for
sustainable development. It is argued that most concerns about the
consequences of population trends are in fact concerns about human capital.
Only by adding the “quality” dimension of education to the traditionally narrow
focus on size and age structure can some of the long-standing population
controversies be resolved.
Thursday, June 4th, 17.00-18.30
The Alumni Room (NABLG09) LSE, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ
Registration is free and open, but please email Dianne Josephs
(d.e.josephs@lse.ac.uk) to pre-register attendance.