Roles of Economics Education in Sustainable National Development

Abstract

In every nation of the world, Governments tend to concentrate their effort on way of enhancing sustainable national development. This is due to the fact that they are aware of the lantern benefit of sustaining national development. A conservative effort of education is a supplementary advantage that aid sustainable national development. In contemporary time, every discipline/field of human endeavour often explore its role for sustainable national development, but unknown to the researcher, no scholarly article has over time point-out the role of Economics education in sustainable national development, this constitute the gap with the paper sought to fill. The paper clarify the meaning of Economics education; concept of sustainable national development; roles of Economics education in sustainable national development inculcating managerial skills and competencies on the learners, preparing the learners for self-reliance, increase standard of living/welfare of learners, promoting marketability of the learner for the world of work, and encourage learners to make prior contribution to sustainable national development. It was recommended that, Government should give necessary attention to Economics education by providing adequate fund to some of its programmes for it to achieve some of its goals, which will in the long-run aid sustainable national development.