Abstract
Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the impact of regional educational development on politics and the economy. In his research Monchar (1981) pointed out that, if regional educational development were uneven, relative deprivation might result, leading to riots, civil war, and potential separatism, since residents in less educationally developed areas might take those in more developed areas as their reference group. Black residents in South Africa, for instance, use the whites there as a reference group, and in comparison, feel all the more educationally deprived. Educational deprivation plus political and economic inequality easily leads to political instability. The index of unevenness in regional education is represented by the coefficient of variation (CV) of the rate of elementary- and high-school-age children in school (number of students/6-12 age-group children).…
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