1st Edition

Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples

By Nicholas Biddle Copyright 2019
128 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In all countries for which data is available, Indigenous peoples have lower rates of formal educational participation and attainment than their non-Indigenous counterparts. There are many structural reasons for this, but it may in part be related to the perceived relationship between the costs and benefits of education. Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples systematically applies a... Read more

Preface – Standpoint and position

Part 1: A human capital approach to Indigenous development

1. Introduction – Why human capital, and why Indigenous peoples

2. The human capital model and its application to Indigenous peoples

3. The determinants of Indigenous human capital development and barriers to development

Part 2: Programs that help improve the human capital development of Indigenous peoples

4. Improving the schooling experience of Indigenous peoples

5. Indigenous specific education institutions

6. Programs that impact on Indigenous peoples indirectly – Conditional Cash Transfers and Indigenous peoples in Latin America

Part 3: Using the Human Capital model to improve the outcomes of Indigenous peoples

7.  Education for all: Using the Human Capital Model for education equity in the 21st Century

Biography

Nicholas Biddle is Associate Professor in Public Policy at the Australian National University and Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.