scholarly journals Dynamic Structural Changes in Economic Growth Determinants, Industry Change and Economic Transformation

CONVERTER ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
Yaling Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Growth Stage ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Modern Economic Growth ◽  
Sample Country ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the transformation in economic growth based on the unified growth theory, using a sample ofcross-sectional data over the period 2003-2018. The results show that physical capital, labor, and human capital ofsample country have significant effects on economic growth measured by per capita gross domestic product,especially the impact on the growth of industrial industries; however, their contribution to economic growth haschanged over time. Human capital has become the primary driving force in economic growth, the effect of physicalcapital cannot be ignored, and the role of labor has taken a back seat. The growth rate of total factor productivityimproves economic growth, but its effect on growth has weakened since 2009, suggesting that the sample country istransforming from a post-Malthusian growth stage to a modern economic growth stage. Policy implications of thefindings are discussed.

scholarly journals Public Investments, Human Capital, and Political Stability: The Triptych of Economic Success

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ioannis Kostakis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Lower Growth ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The Impact

This study assesses the effects of fiscal policy on economic growth in a sample of 96 countries from 1990 to 2010. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Extreme Bound Analysis are mainly estimated in order to investigate whether public investments, human capital, and political stability affect growth controlling for initial output and human capital levels. Furthermore, in this empirical research four subsets of independent variables were used: (a) demographic factors, (b) political determinants, (c) region variables, and (d) variables regarding macroeconomic policy. Empirical results suggest that there is an important difference in the impact of public and private sector investments on the growth of per capita income. Moreover, political indicators such as corruption control, rule of law, and government effectiveness have a high impact on economic growth. Demographic factors, including fertility rate and mortality growth, as well as several macroeconomic variables, like inflation rate index and government consumption, were estimated to be statistically significant factors of economic performance. Fiscal volatility may also be a new possible channel of macroeconomic instability that leads to lower growth. Policy implications of the findings are discussed in detail.

Does female human capital contribute to economic growth in India?: an empirical investigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 1506-1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhu Sehrawat ◽  
A.K. Giri
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Variance Decomposition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of female human capital on economic growth in the Indian economy during 1970-2014. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs Ng-Perron unit root test to check the order of integration of the variables. The study also used ARDL-bounds testing approach and the unrestricted error-correction model to investigate co-integration in the long run and short run; Granger’s causality test to investigate the direction of the causality; and variance decomposition test to capture the influence of each variable on economic growth. Findings The study constructed a composite index for both male and female human capitals by taking education and health as a proxy for human capital. The empirical findings reveal that female human capital is significant and positively related to economic growth in both short run and long run, while male human capital is positive but insignificant to the economic growth; same is the case for physical capital, it implies that such investment regarding female human capital needs to be reinforced. Further, there is an evidence of a long-run causal relationship from female human capital, male human capital and physical capital to economic growth variable. The results of variance decomposition show the importance of the female human capital variable is increasing over the time and it exerts the largest influence in change in economic growth. Research limitations/implications The empirical findings suggest that the Indian economy has to pay attention equally on the development of female human capital for short-run as well as long-run growth of the economy. This implies that the policy makers should divert more expenditure for developing support for female education and health. Originality/value To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first attempt to study the relationship between female human capital and economic growth in the context of the Indian economy.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Human Capital and Technological Innovation Growth of Regional Economy and Psychology of New Entrepreneurs in Northeast China

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyang Yu ◽  
Mingji Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The economic restructuring and rapid rise of the economy in Northeast China have resulted in a proliferation of new ventures. Studying the psychology of new entrepreneurs is conducive to understanding the relationship between human capital and economic growth. The work reported here aims to explore the impact of human capital on economic growth in Northeast China and the influencing factors of psychological capital of new entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial process. Based on Cobb–Douglas production function, the relationship between labor, physical capital, or human capital and economic growth in Northeast China is analyzed by econometric methods, and a model of human capital and economic growth in Northeast China is constructed. Besides, a psychological capital intervention (PCI) model is proposed to develop the psychological capital of new entrepreneurs, and the psychological quality structure model of entrepreneurial entrepreneurs and its operation mechanism. The results of the empirical analysis demonstrate that the elasticity coefficient of human capital in Northeast China is 0.15902, five times smaller than that of labor and physical capital. Moreover, 70% of new ventures are willing to accept higher education. The fitting degree of using the PCI model to develop the psychological capital of new ventures is only 0.3%. In addition, the modified external environment PCI instead of the external environment PCI model has a huge operating potential in the macro-entrepreneurial environment. In conclusion, the impact of human capital on economic growth in the northeast is smaller than the impact of labor and material capital investment on regional economic growth. The development of human capital and research on the composition and mechanism of psychological quality of entrepreneurial entrepreneurs are of significant theoretical and practical values to promote the economic growth in the northeast.

HUMAN CAPITAL AND ENERGY: A DRIVER OR DRAG FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (03) ◽  
pp. 683-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOUNGHO CHANG ◽  
ZHENG FANG ◽  
SHIGEYUKI HAMORI
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Substitution Effect ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cointegration Analysis ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Long Run

This paper examines a causal relationship between energy consumption, human capital and GDP for the ASEAN-5 (namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines) over the period 1965–2011. It differs from the existing energy-growth nexus literature greatly by taking into consideration the role of human capital across countries. Both the single-equation estimation and the Johansen’s cointegration analysis suggest the presence of a long-run relationship among these variables. The exclusion test finds that human capital is a crucial factor in the cointegration space as much as conventional inputs of physical capital; and energy seems to play a less important role when human capital increases, indicating a possible substitution effect between the two variables. Using the Toda–Yamamoto test, it finds no long-run Granger causal link between energy use and economic development in the two net energy-exporter countries Malaysia and Indonesia and the city state Singapore, while in the Philippines economic growth Granger causes energy use and in Thailand a feedback effect is identified. Based on these results, policy implications are drawn.

scholarly journals The Importance of Entrepreneurship Education on Economic Growth

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harun Bal ◽  
Erhan İşcan ◽  
Birgül Katar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The Impact

Entrepreneurship is one of the prominent individual properties in transition from industrial society to artificial intelligence society. It is extremely important to raise entrepreneurs who can easily adapt to changing circumstances, in a society’s economic growth and development. An entrepreneurship has different qualities in terms of manners and attributes such as leadership, ability to see the opportunities, to pursue the innovations, to take risk, independence, diligence, creative thinking, fast problem solving. It is thought to be the economic growth depended on physical capital increase as well as labor and capital. Education is the most crucial component of human capital. In recent years, the most striking result of endogenous growth model of Romer who contributed the improvement of human capital theory is relatively the economies that have higher sum of human capital rate will have higher economic growth rate. The main aim of this study is to determine the impact of the entrepreneurship education on economic growth and development. For this aim a questionnaire is prepared to analyze the potential impact of the entrepreneurship education on economic growth and development. Results of analyze shown that the entrepreneurship education is necessary and important for entrepreneurship. Therefore, entrepreneurship education and training is sufficient for economic growth. The policy makers should spend more resources on the education that increases the human and social capital.

scholarly journals The Long Term Impact of Health on Economic Growth in Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4II) ◽  
pp. 487-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeem Akram ◽  
Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda ◽  
Mohammad Khan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
The Impact

Human capital plays pivotal role for sustainable economic Growth. As different growth theories suggest the role of human capital as a significant for growth process. The concept of human capital in economic literature defined broadly by including education, health, training, migration, and other investments that enhance an individual’s productivity. However, the growth economists that have incorporated human capital in the growth studies, paid greater attention on analysing the impact of education on economic growth, while ignoring the role of health human capital. It is only in very recent times that studies have started looking at health and tried to estimate the relationship between health status and economic growth. There exists a two-way relationship between improved health and economic growth. Health and other forms of human and physical capital increases the per capita GDP by increasing productivity of existing resources coupled with resource accumulation and technical change. Furthermore, some part of this increased income is spent on investment in human capital, which results in further per capita growth. According to Fogel (1994), approximately one third of GDP of Britain between 1790 and 1980 is the outcome of improvements in health especially improvement in nutrition, public health, and medical care facilities and these improved health facilities should be considered as labour enhancing technical change.

scholarly journals Does the Vision 2030 and Value Added Tax Leads to Sustainable Economic Growth: The Case of Saudi Arabia?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 11090
Author(s):  
Suleman Sarwar ◽  
Dalia Streimikiene ◽  
Rida Waheed ◽  
Ashwag Dignah ◽  
Asta Mikalauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Impact

The motivation behind the current research is to check the effect of the recent introduction of value added tax (VAT) and Vision 2030 on the economy of Saudi Arabia. To check this, those variables are added to the analysis which contribute to economic development including labor, capital, oil price, financial development, and trade openness to examine that how economic transformation affects the role of these variables in economic growth. According to the vector error correction (VEC) model, the impact of labor becomes negative after VAT, however, the impact of capital and financial development becomes significant by this transformation. The coefficients of oil prices, for positive and negative shocks, are significant and negative. Financial development and trade openness are reporting surprising results; positive shocks have shown negative coefficients. However, after Vision 2030, trade openness has a significant and positive coefficient. Policy implications include diversification of exports, reviving the private financing mechanism and restructuring the export/import policies.

scholarly journals The Impact of Gender-Specific Human Capital on Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation for Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (s1) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Hacer Simay Karaalp-Orhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Bounds Testing ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Arithmetic Average ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Education Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this study, how the human capital disaggregated by gender and physical capital affects economic growth in Turkey is examined for the period of 1971–2015. By using an arithmetic average of health and education indicators as a proxy of human capital formation, an attempt was made to examine the relationship between the human capital and economic growth under the scope of gender inequality. In this context, an ARDL-bounds testing approach and the unrestricted error-correction model were used to investigate the co-integration in the long- run and short run. Further, the causality test was also conducted to identify the direction of the causality between the variables. The main finding indicates that male human capital has been the central variable affected by both economic growth and physical capital. On one hand, a significant positive relationship was found between the economic growth and physical capital and male human capital in the long-run, while on the other hand, the female human capital was associated negatively to the economic growth. There is no evidence of causality that links the female human capital to other variables. This result suggests that women are not well utilized in the Turkish economy and the country suffers from untapped potential of women.

scholarly journals Human capital formation and economic growth across the world: a panel data econometric approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Cuevas Ahumada ◽  
Cuauhtémoc Calderón Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Human Capital Formation ◽  
The Impact

This paper estimates 12 dynamic panel data models to assess the impact of human capital formation and other key variables on the economic growth of 52 countries over a 13-year period. Several methodological and empirical contributions are made to assemble country groups, lower measurement errors and reduce the omitted variable bias while keeping the models parsimonious. Among other things, the evidence indicates that the responsiveness of economic growth to physical capital accumulation, institutional development, human capital formation, and total factor productivity varies across country groups to a certain extent. The policy implications of these findings are relevant on several grounds.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Economic Growth in Ghana: New Empirical Evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 626-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sin-Yu Ho ◽  
Bernard Njindan Iyke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Determinants Of Economic Growth

This article deals with an investigation into the determinants of economic growth in Ghana over the period from 1975 to 2014. In particular, we investigated the impact of physical capital, human capital, labour, government expenditure, inflation, foreign aid, foreign direct investment, financial development, globalization and debt servicing on economic performance within an augmented Solow growth model. It was found that, in the long run, both human capital and foreign aid have a positive influence on output, while labour, financial development and debt servicing have a negative impact on output. It was also found that, in the short run, government expenditure and foreign aid have a positive influence on economic growth, while labour, inflation and financial development have a negative impact on economic growth. These findings hold important policy implications for the country.

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