Re: China as a high tech source

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walt Byars wrote:

> In terms of education levels, how much capacity does China have to
> increase technology diffusion? I don't have recent numbers on me, but
> primary school enrollemnt rate declined by about a fifth from 1977-96 and
> secondary school enrollment rate was almost back to 94.1% of primary
> graduates (1976) from a low of about 65% in 84.

The World Bank has secondary enrollment rates at 49% in 1990, and 70%
in 2002; tertiary, 3% and 16% respectively. Where do your figs come
from?

Doug