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. 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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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 of higher education. This article challenges beliefs that tertiary education has …
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Will an aging population lower economic growth? Economists are generally concerned that the increase in life expectancy could lower economic growth, however, theory does not make a prediction. As life expectancy increases, so should household savings, which results in more physical capital per...
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; (iv) prepare the healthcare system for an ageing and modernising society; and (v) improve the education system …
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Will an aging population lower economic growth? Economists are generally concerned that the increase in life expectancy could lower economic growth, however, theory does not make a prediction. As life expectancy increases, so should household savings, which results in more physical capital per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863794
The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education to exert a negative impact on the Gini index. Third, fixed broadband distinctly interacts with primary school …
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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 may reach the central conclusion that basic education affects agents …
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In this paper we investigate the effects of emigration on growth in developing countries.We present a model in which productivity increases either through imitation or innovation, and both activities use the same types of human capital as inputs, albeit with different intensities.Heterogenous...
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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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