The cost of not educating the world's poor [electronic resource] : the new economics of learning / Lynn Ilon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1a. Introduction -- 1b. Introduction to the theories -- 2a. Development --2b. Shifting views on development -- 3a. The value of an education -- 3b. Human capital theory -- 4a. Education and development -- 4b. The knowledge economy -- 5a. Learning goes global -- 5b. Networked learning -- 6a. Becoming creative -- 6b. From global production to digitization -- 7a. The value of knowledge -- 7b. The economics of knowledge -- 8a. The power of ideas -- 8b. New growth theory -- 9a. The social value of learning -- 9b. Social economics of learning -- 10a. Learning together -- 10b. New learning structures -- 11a. Social well-being -- 11b. Changing views on social welfare economics -- 12. Mis-education -- 13. Education in a new age -- 14. The cost of not educating.