Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 274–280
Kaoutar Deriouch1
1 Laboratory of Economic Analysis and Modeling (LEAM), Faculty of Economic and Social Legal Sciences - Souissi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Human capital is the cornerstone of the development of economic and social activities. It is an accumulation of investments by an individual in order to improve his productive capacities like education. Our paper aims to present and analyze the relationship between human capital and economic growth on the African level, while approaching concretely the real image through the case of the ECOWAS countries. Our study will focus, essentially, around the concept of human capital, an analysis of the relationship between human capital and economic growth for ECOWAS countries through econometric modeling, and an interpretation of the results of the model.
Author Keywords: Human capital, economic growth, education, skills, ECOWAS.
Kaoutar Deriouch1
1 Laboratory of Economic Analysis and Modeling (LEAM), Faculty of Economic and Social Legal Sciences - Souissi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Human capital is the cornerstone of the development of economic and social activities. It is an accumulation of investments by an individual in order to improve his productive capacities like education. Our paper aims to present and analyze the relationship between human capital and economic growth on the African level, while approaching concretely the real image through the case of the ECOWAS countries. Our study will focus, essentially, around the concept of human capital, an analysis of the relationship between human capital and economic growth for ECOWAS countries through econometric modeling, and an interpretation of the results of the model.
Author Keywords: Human capital, economic growth, education, skills, ECOWAS.
How to Cite this Article
Kaoutar Deriouch, “Human capital and economic growth: The case of ECOWAS countries,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 274–280, July 2020.
