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Economic growth in developing countries: The role of human capital
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In this article, the focus on human capital as a driver of economic growth for developing countries has led to undue attention on school attainment, which led to a lack of attention on issues of school quality and in that area developing countries have been much less successful in closing the gaps with developed countries.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 532 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developing country & Human capital.read more
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Economic growth, human capital and structural change: A dynamic panel data analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the direct and indirect effects of human capital on economic growth, including in the latter the interaction between human capital with the industrial specialization of countries, and find that human capital and the countries' productive specialization dynamics are crucial factors for economic growth.
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Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Wößmann +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that educational achievement can account for between half and two thirds of the income differences between Latin America and the rest of the world in terms of economic development, and that the positive growth effect of educational achievement fully accounts for the poor growth performance of Latin American countries.
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Human capital contribution to economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does health status matter more than education?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the debate on the possible impact of human capital on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and considered two alternative measures: health and education, and employed a dynamic model based on the system generalized method of moments (SGMM).
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Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sara Cools,Andreas Kotsadam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how both the incidence and the acceptance of intimate partner violence vary across time and space, in a region with record high levels of violence against women, and find that resource inequality, both within the household and at the aggregate level, is associated with more abuse.
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Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies
Mariya Aleksynska,Ahmed Tritah +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries and found that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they perform.
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