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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND SERVICE SECTOR PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the impact of human capital development and institutional quality on service sector performance in Nigeria. For the purpose of this study, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method was employed based on data from 1981 – 2019. Empirical result show that human capital development had a positive and statistically insignificant impact on theservice sector in the long and short-run. It was also found that institutional quality ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCES

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION PREAMBLE There are basically four resources that organizations use to achieve their objectives.  These resources are known as the four “Ms” in the vocabulary management. They are; man, materials, money and machines. Of these four, the most important element is unarguably the resources – man. The development of people in an organization will lead to improved performance. Although business executives believe that people are the most important ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

Abstract This study examined and analyzed the impact of human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria, using time series data of 32 years spanning 1980 to 2012, data utilized for the study were extracted from secondary sources i.e. journals and publications, CBN and NBS. The Ordinary Least Square Regression technique was used to estimate the parameters of the model. Empirical results show that human capital development, in line with ...

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EFFECTS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE TOWARDS HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Economic Growth which is the quantitative increase in output of goods and services in an economy at a particular point in time (i.e. Increase in production level of every sector of the economy) is one of the most important attributes of the macro-economic goals which every economy aims to achieve but Economic Development is sustained growth in the economy accomplished by ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT This study shows the relevance of human capital development to the growth of the economy. It evaluates human capital development and economic growth in Nigeria by adopting conceptual analytical framework that employs the theoretical and ordinary least square (OLS) to analyze the relationship using the GDP as proxy for economic growth; total government expenditure on education and health, and the enrolment pattern of tertiary, secondary and primary schools as ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

ABSTRACT The study examines the impact of Human Capital Development (HCD) Nigeria on Economic Growth in Its analysis is predicted on multivariate co integration where real GDP growth rate is the dependent variable while recurrent expenditure on education, real gross capital formation, primary enrolment; post primary education enrolment and tertiary education are independent variable. It finds that capital formation; post primary education enrolment; tertiary education enrolment and recurrent expenditure on ...

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THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ABSTRACT Although several theories of growth point towards a positive effect of human capital on growth, empirical evidence on this issue has been mixed. Using the Correlation and Regression analyses, this work examines empirically the role of human capital in Nigeria's economic development. Empirical results indicate that there is, indeed a long-run relationship among labour force, physical capital investment proxied by real gross domestic capital formation, human capital formation, proxied ...

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ANALYSIS OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the study Human capital development is human centered because its major concern is on human empowerment which would lead to active participation. According to OECD (2001), human capital is concerned with knowledge, skills competitiveness and attributes embedded in an individual that facilitates the creation of personal, social, education and economic wellbeing. In order to achieve positive economic growth in Nigeria, human capital development should be ...

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THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER ONE  INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND OF STUDY This study of human capital development is very important issue in every organization which focuses on growth, viability and survival of any organization. Whether private or public, manufacturing or non-manufacturing is effective acquisition, utilization and maintenance of the organization’s human resources. The human resource is so critical to organization survival such that it has judging by today’s complex business environment, been acclaimed as ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract This study examined and analyzed the impact of human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria, using time series data of 32 years spanning 1980 to 2012, data utilized for the study were extracted from secondary sources i.e. journals and publications, CBN and NBS. The Ordinary Least Square Regression technique was used to estimate the parameters of the model. Empirical results show that human capital development, in line with ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The concept of human capital refers to the abilities and skills of human resources of a country, while human capital development refers to the process of acquiring and increasing the number of persons who have the skills, education and experience that are critical for economic growth and development of a country’s economy (Okojie, 2005). Also, Ejere (2011) posited that human capital refers ...

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ECONOMIC RECESSION AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT Global economic recession has micro and macro effects on all sectors of a country’s economy. The study examined economic recession and human capital development in Nigeria. The training and development of university lecturers in Ogun East Central District were related to the human capital development. The study adopted the research survey design approach and the simple random sampling technique was used to select 453 lecturers in different positions and ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT & CORPORATE PERFORMANCES

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  PREAMBLE  There are basically four resources that organizations use to achieve their objectives. These resources are known as the four “Ms” in the vocabulary management. They are; man, materials, money and machines. Of these four, the most important element is unarguably the resources – man. The development of people in an organization will lead to improved performance. Although business executives believe that people are the most important ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND ITS EFFECTS (A CASE STUDY OF ZENITH BANK PLC ILORIN BRANCH)

RESEARCH PROPOSAL   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Training is a process were by individuals acquire knowledge, skill and attitude through experience, reflection, study or instruction. Training is also planned process to modify attitude, knowledge, skill, behaviour, etc. through learning acquire effective performance in an activity or range of activities. The purpose of training is to develop the ability of an individual to satisfy current and future manpower needed to supplement ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE IN ECONOMICS EDUCATION

Abstract This study is on human capital development strategies for effective performance in economics education. The total population for the study is 200 staff of Imo state University. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made heads of department, senior lecturers, junior lecturers and graduate assistants were used for the study. The ...

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NIGERIAN BANKING INDUSTRY

Abstract Human capital is getting wider attention with increasing globalization and also the saturation of the job market due to the recent downturn in the various economies of the world. Developed and developing countries put emphasis on a more human capital development towards accelerating the economic growth by devoting necessary time and efforts. Thus human capital development is one of the fundamental solutions to enter the international arena. Specifically, banks ...

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