Distribution of Education The foregoing analysis of forces operating for over education in developing countries should not lead us to despair over the possibility of fostering development through greater education. Country that have developed successfully have generally ensured that educational benefits are more broadly available in the economy--to the poor as well as the urban. And so we turn to examining the distribution of educational benefits in developing countries. Just as we can derive Lorenz curves for distribution of income (see Chapter 5. we can also develop Lorenz curves for the distribution of education. Figure 8.7