PUBLIC CAPITAL, REGIONAL OUTPUT, AND DEVELOPMENT: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Human Capital Development and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria

The study examined the contribution of different measures of human capital development to economic growth in Nigeria. It used data from Nigeria and adopted the growth account model which specifies the growth of GDP as a function of labour and capital. The model also included a measure of policy reforms. Based on the estimated regression and a descriptive statistical analysis of trends of govern...

Government Size and Social Capital in Developing Countries; New Empirical Evidence

Social capital is one of the most important subjects in development economics. It has a crucial role in development process in developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study about the importance of government size in social capital. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is considering the relationship between government size and social capital in 109 developing countries d...

Social Capital, Economic Growth and Regional Development

SRIYA IYER*, MICHAEL KITSON† and BERNARD TOH‡ *Faculty of Economics and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK. Email: [email protected] †Judge Business School and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Email: bernard.toh@g...

Public Capital, Infrastructure and Industrial Development

Empirical Evidence on Human Capital Spillovers

This paper examines whether the average level of human capital in a region affects the earnings of an individual residing in that region in a manner that is external to the individual’s own human capital. I find little evidence of an external effect of human capital, which suggests that human capital spillovers of the form postulated by the new growth literature are unlikely to matter much in p...