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THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN GHANA

[http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/358283/the-impact-of-human-capital-on-economic-growth-in-ghana

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 from 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.