High school dropouts cost countries a staggering amount of money

While the purpose of education can’t be reduced to promoting economic growth, every child out of school represents both lost opportunities — and huge economic costs — for countries.

DROPOUT RATE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – Badlaav Social Reform Foundation

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PDF) The Societal Benefits and Costs of School Dropout Recovery

PDF) Indexing the potential number of dropouts from a particular governmental school in a given year using statistical learning and logistic modeling.