Comment by yorwba
17 hours ago
When it comes to prioritizing capital deployment for education, it's probably better to start with primary schools before thinking about top universities. https://wid.world/news-article/china-vs-india-how-human-capi... suggests that this played a role in the economic divergence between India and China: India had a higher tertiary school enrollment rate than China until about 2000, but China had universal primary school enrollment much earlier, so more people could transition out of working in agriculture.
Interesting.
And yes, implicitly, if there are top-universities, that would mean that the full educational system is functioning properly. It's mostly to be understood as a signal.
Thank you for the article. It's quite enlightening.