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Education in Eritrea: Developmental Challenges

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The ongoing national reconstruction process of Eritrea is centered on educational reformation. The government of … Eritrea placed educational policy on top priority for national development which demands the emergence of new class of trained …. The data for the study were mainly collected from the reports of Ministry of Education and other colleges in Eritrea. The …

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Public Investment in Basic Education and Economic Growth

Teles, Vladimir Kühl; de Andrade, Joaquim - 2004

The main objective of this paper was to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education, and on economic growth. From the results obtained, we...

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Saving and Investment in US Economic Growth

Sy, Wilson N. - 2014

Key economic concepts of saving and investment are defined and discussed in this paper. It is shown that the equation “saving=investment” is a fundamental fallacy of macroeconomics due to a confusion between real and financial variables, and also between stock and flow variables. Economic...

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A Study on Forecasting Economic Convergence of India in Comparison to USA, China and Japan

Rajaiah, Jayaraj; Pendse, Eesha; Thomas, Sheril Anna; … - 2021

This paper attempts to examine, compare and forecast the per capita GDP of India, the USA, China, and Japan for a period of ten years from 2020 to 2029. It studies the concept of economic convergence which states that the developing economies’ per capita income levels tend to move at a faster...

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Can the university save Europe?

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...

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Literacy, Education and Economic Development in Contemporary China

Yeoh 楊又興, Emile Kok-Kheng; Chu, Kah-Mun - 2013

Literacy has been conceptualized traditionally as having a major role in developing a nation. Literacy helps to spread awareness among the people of their rights. People with good literacy skills enjoy a higher standard of living, have better opportunities of finding jobs, and are able to...

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Higher Education and Economic Growth in Africa

Bloom, David E. - 2014

Enrollment rates for higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa are by far the lowest in the world at 6%. Yet because of conventional beliefs that tertiary education is less important for poverty reduction, the international development community has encouraged African governments' relative neglect...

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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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Dynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...

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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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