We investigate trends in health human capital using data on infant mortality rates and adult heights for birth cohorts from 1960 to 1985 from 39 developing countries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, despite declining infant mortality rates, adult heights have not risen. We argue that childhood exposure to disease, and nutrition, have remained stagnant in Sub-Saharan Africa and the decline in infant mort...

Unified Growth Theory uncovers the forces that contributed to the existence of multiple growth regimes and the emergence of convergence clubs. It suggests that differential timing of take-offs from stagnation to growth segmented economies into three fundamental regimes: slow growing economies in a Malthusian regime, fast growing countries in a sustained growth regime, and economies in the trans...

This article contrasts two incompatible paradigms of economics and their implication for economic growth. The first paradigm is consistent with the micro-foundations of neoclassical theory, which assume that all goods and services are produced from other goods plus value added by some combination of capital and labor. The theory does not explain growth, but simply assumes that technological pro...

the current world is the era of wisdom and knowledge. endowments, natural and tangible assets are not the key factor for success of communities and organizations; instead, management of intangible assets in this turbulent and challenging environment for the organizations are the key success factor for them. the organizations which are able to recognize these assets and manage them properly woul...

A growth model with endogenous innovation and accumulation of high-tech and lowtech human capital is developed. The model accounts for a recently established fact about human capital composition, which stated that “the richest countries are investing proportionally less than middle income countries in engineering and technical human capital”, due to the consideration of a negative effect of tec...

the present research has been done with the aim of determine the relationship between intellectual capital and employee performance of ports and maritime organization. statistical population of the present study includes head office employees of tehran ports and maritime organization. the statistical population is 140 people, 103 samples were selected according to morgan table. in this research...

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technological spillovers and the significance of these for the growth and economic convergence of the OECD countries. For this purpose a growth model is estimated that includes amongst its determinants a measure of the stock of technological knowledge. The results reveal first that international technologica...

Human capital externalities play a central role in endogenous growth models. Many economists base their belief that Government intervention in provision of educations is essential, on those externalities. This paper tries to exploit the low levels of education and literacy rates in India, for measuring human capital externalities. Households' expenditures per capita are highly correlated with a...