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    Peter Easton (Associate professor of dult education and human-resource development)

  2. Florida State University, USA

    Steven Klees (Professor of economics of education)

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His interest is economics of education, adult-literacy promotion, evaluation methodologies. Recent publications are on post-literacy programming and consumption benefits of primary schooling.

Author of numerous works on educational evaluation and policy. Current interests include education and work, research methodology debates and the political economy of development.

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Easton, P., Klees, S. Education and the economy. Prospects 20, 413–428 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195115

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