Purpose - Our generation is witnessing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the heart of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. I examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the...

Purpose – Our generation is witnessing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the heart of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. I examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the...

This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...

The importance of social policies and human resources for social development is a question of special consideration in contemporary globalizing society suffering a number of problems in its social and economic development. Current study makes analyses of the key features of the human resources...

Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. We examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the relationships...

Key factor for socio-economic development are people. They are the foundation of social management as a separate managerial area, the goal of which is the management of the interaction between the subject and the object, (having their social character), occurring in a particular social...

The importance of social policies and human resources for social development is a question of special consideration in contemporary globalizing society suffering a number of problems in its social and economic development. Current study makes analyses of the key features of the human resources...

This paper examines specifically the impact of human capital development on long-run economic growth in Nigeria, using time serial data for 27 year period: 1981-2007. The Ordinary Least Square multiple regression was used to estimate the necessary models. The gross domestic product per capita...

Die Qualität der Bildung und nicht die Zahl an Bildungsjahren ist entscheidend für das Wirtschaftswachstum eines Landes. Studien deuten außerdem darauf hin, dass es vor allem die naturwissenschaftlichen Fächer und mathematischen Spitzenleistungen sind, die entscheidend zur wirtschaftlichen...