User:Alexander Ayertey Odonkor

Alexander Ayertey Odonkor is a Ghanaian economic researcher whose debut book,The impact of human capital on economic growth in Ghana is sold by many book retailers in the world.The impact of human capital on economic growth is available in retail outlets of Barnes & Noble in the United States,amazon.com,AbeBooks.co.uk,The book depository in United Kingdom,Super book deals in United States,Alibris in United States etc.The impact of human capital on economic growth was originally published by GRIN publishing house,a book publishing company based in Munich and Ravensburg. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ghana. The study employs secondary data extracted from economic data of Ghana Statistical Service, World Bank, Journals of Economic Studies and Bank of Ghana Research Unit and website spanning from 1970 to 2010.The research design was modeled after what has been commonly employed in the existing literature in determining the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ghana. The study applied ordinary least squares regression (OLS) to estimate the models and perform data analysis. The results of the study show the impact of human capital on economic growth within a forty year period.On the basis of the economic a priori expectation and regression result, it was discovered that the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ghana is positively related. The study concludes that improved human capital leads to economic growth in Ghana. Alexander Ayertey Odonkor has a bachelors degree in Economics and Finance. He has a masters degree in finance from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.He has pursued the following postgraduate programmes;Socially-Responsible Real Estate Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in United States,Risk Management for Projects at University of Adelaide in Australia,Portfolio Management and Governance at Washington University in United States,Business model implementation at Delft University of Technology in Netherlands and Macroeconomic principles at Arizona State University in United States.

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