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Impact of Human Capital Index on Economic Growth in Africa

International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023
This study investigates the impact of the Human Capital Index (HCI) on economic growth (EG) in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania using various statistical techniques. The results indicate that the relationship between HCI and EG is complex and varies by country. The coefficient for TZA is positive, while GHA and KE are negative.
Yohana Maiga
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Malaysia's Human Capital Index and Education: A new beginning

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 2023
Children who take two types of national examinations at 12 and 17 years old are compared using results from the Malaysian national examinations. It is proven future workers will be 100 percent more productive if they complete their education. Malaysia's HCI of 0.62 means a child born today will be 62 percent more productive than if given a complete ...
Noorziah Mohd Salleh, Alan Nankervis
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The Geography of Human Capital: Insights from the Subnational Human Capital Index in Indonesia [PDF]

Social Indicators Research
AbstractThis paper explores the spatial heterogeneity in the human capital potential of Indonesia’s next generation by constructing and analyzing sub-national human capital indices (HCI) for 34 provinces and 514 districts in Indonesia. The paper identifies data and methodological constraints in the construction of these sub-national indices and ...
Virgi Sari, Sailesh Tiwari
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WHY DO WE NEED HUMAN CAPITAL INDEX? [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2016
As technology advances, it establishes and operates on knowledge emerged from the factors of production increased from the role of the human factor, above all, be seen by a unit value that has growing resources and is able to move more and more ...
Csaba NAGY
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The Human Capital Index: a challenge for Brazil

Ciencia & saude coletiva, 2021
The article analyzes the Human Capital Index (HCI) proposed by the World Bank in 2018 to evaluate the performance in the health and education sectors of 157 countries. Brazil's situation is compared to societies with institutionalized social protection systems.
Nílson do Rosário Costa, Elize Massard da Fonseca   +1 more
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Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

, 2018
This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of health and education into a measure of the human capital that a child born today can expect to obtain by her 18th birthday, given the risks of poor education and health that ...
Aart Kraay
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A New Index of Human Capital to Predict Economic Growth [PDF]

, 2018
The accumulation of knowledge required to produce economic value is a process that often relates to nations economic growth. Such a relationship, however, is misleading when the proxy of such accumulation is the average years of education. In this paper, we show that the predictive power of this proxy started to dwindle in 1990 when nations schooling ...
Henry Laverde, Juan C. Correa, Klaus Jaffé   +2 more
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Methodological Approaches to Constructing Human Capital Index: Regional Dimension

Voprosy statistiki
The paper analyses available foreign and domestic expertise in the treatment and methods for measuring human capital. The authors identify weaknesses of a common approach to measuring human capital based on international statistical standards not adapted to national features of information and statistical support for regional analysis in the face of ...
V. V. Medyanik, A. N. Kurbatskii, P. I. Nagorny, D. V. Goryashin   +3 more
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Estimation of Human Capital In Iran Using Fuzzy Logic [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2021
Human capital is a hidden variable. In different economic studies, various proxies have been used as a proxy for human capital, including the average literacy index, the number of graduates or the average number of years of schooling.
Zana Mozaffari, Bakhtiar Javaheri
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Impact of public investment on the quality of human capital [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The article discusses the importance of the problem of human capital formation. Human capital is a multifaceted concept that gives the greatest return in a modern economy. It is measurable.
Makarycheva I.V., Shishkanova G.A.
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