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The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia

This paper studies the relationship between education and economic growth in Malaysia. We examine the relationship between educational variables and gross domestic product (GDP). This paper focuses on human capital as a one of determinant of economic growth. The problem statement of this study was t...

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Main Authors: Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah, Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2007
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L Education (General)
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spelling my.uum.repo.16262010-11-30T02:52:24Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/1626/ The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma L Education (General) This paper studies the relationship between education and economic growth in Malaysia. We examine the relationship between educational variables and gross domestic product (GDP). This paper focuses on human capital as a one of determinant of economic growth. The problem statement of this study was that, does the education attainment of the population can help to increase the economic growth? Our main result suggest that there exists a co-integrating relationship between education as measured by enrollments rates in primary, secondary and higher education and the GDP per capita. Malaysian annual data were collected over twenty six-year period starting from 1980 up to 2005. The Methodology employed is the standard co-integration analysis. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/1626/1/THE_IMPACT_OF_EDUCATION_ON_ECONOMIC_GROWTH.pdf Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah and Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma (2007) The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia. In: The 5th ASEAN Symposium on Educational Management and Leadership (ASEMAL 5), 18-19 August 2007, Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic L Education (General)
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Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma
The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
description This paper studies the relationship between education and economic growth in Malaysia. We examine the relationship between educational variables and gross domestic product (GDP). This paper focuses on human capital as a one of determinant of economic growth. The problem statement of this study was that, does the education attainment of the population can help to increase the economic growth? Our main result suggest that there exists a co-integrating relationship between education as measured by enrollments rates in primary, secondary and higher education and the GDP per capita. Malaysian annual data were collected over twenty six-year period starting from 1980 up to 2005. The Methodology employed is the standard co-integration analysis.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma
author_facet Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah
Mohamed Yusof, Nor Yusma
author_sort Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah
title The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
title_short The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
title_full The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
title_fullStr The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The impact of education on economic growth: The case of Malaysia
title_sort impact of education on economic growth: the case of malaysia
publishDate 2007
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/1626/1/THE_IMPACT_OF_EDUCATION_ON_ECONOMIC_GROWTH.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/1626/
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