This article reviews the role of education in promoting economic growth, with a particular
focus on the role of knowledge capital, or the aggregate skills of a country. It concludes that …

Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

China's rapid economic growth has resulted in resource consumption and environmental
degradation. Only by improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) can China's economic …

Using a unique historical dataset for 20 OECD economies from 1870 to 2014, we study
whether human capital accumulation is associated with improvements in environmental …

This paper addresses the transformation of competition in higher education. Not only have
competition and competitive schemes dramatically developed in the last decades, from …

We examine the effect of human capital on energy consumption for a panel of OECD
economies over the period 1965–2014. Our preferred results, which account for cross …

At present, carbon emissions reduction is a very important challenge all over the world.
Improvement of human capital helps to reduce carbon emissions. This paper studies the …

Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays
an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

In the last 3 decades, develo** economies continuously have increased their
manufacturing industries with an impressive growth rate. Rising the trend of globalization …