Capital deepening

About: Capital deepening is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5203 publications have been published within this topic receiving 230297 citations.

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Malaysia: Interactions with Human Capital and Financial Deepening

Abstract: This paper explores the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic growth in Malaysia, appropriately controlling for other proximate drivers of economic growth: domestic investment, exports, financial markets, and human capital. Domestic capital formation, FDI, human capital, and financial deepening significantly affect economic growth. FDI has a positive and significant effect on economic growth, but its effect is of lesser magnitude than that of domestic investment. Human capital and financial markets interact with FDI and, thus, are important for both short- and long-term growth processes. The results suggest that it is important to encourage domestic as well as foreign investment to put Malaysia back on its precrisis growth path.

Human Capital Development and Economic Growth: The Nigeria Experience

Abstract: This study employs the augmented Solow human-capital-growth model to investigate the impact of human capital development on national output, a proxy for economic growth, using quarterly time-series data from 1999-2012. Empirical results show that human capita development, in line with theory, exhibits significant positive impact on output level. This implies that human capital development is indispensable in the achievement of sustainable economic growth in Nigeria, as there is an increase in economic performance for every increase in human capital development. The results further reveal a relatively inelastic relationship between human capital development and output level. Going forward, government and policy makers should make concerted and sincere efforts in building and developing human capacity through adequate educational funding across all levels. This remains the major way of attaining sustainable economic growth and development in any economy.

Environmental Policy, the Porter Hypothesis and the Composition of Capital: Effects of Learning and Techonological Progress

Abstract: In this paper, the effect of environmental policy on the composition of capital is investigated. By allowing for non-linearities, it generalizes Xepapadeas and De Zeeuw (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999) and determines scenarios in which their results do not carry over. In particular, we show that the way acquisition cost of investment decreases with the age of the capital stock is of crucial importance. Also, it is obtained that environmental policy has opposite effects on the average age of the capital stock in the case of either deterioration or depreciation. We also focus more explicitly on learning and technological progress. Among others, we obtain that in the presence of learning, implementing a stricter environmental policy with the aim to reach a certain target of emissions reduction has a stronger negative effect on industry profits, which implies quite the opposite as to what is described by the Porter hypothesis.

The relation between capital formation and economic growth: evidence from sub-Saharan African countries

Abstract: This paper examines the causal relationship between capital formation and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries using recent panel cointegration and causality testing techniques. We find that causality is bi-directional, suggesting that higher economic growth leads to higher capital formation and that in turn, increases in capital formation results in higher economic growth. These results hold irrespective of whether capital formation is measured with private fixed capital formation or by gross capital formation.