Education Development and Economic Growth

Author: Ye Maolin
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book primarily discusses the role of education in China's economic development, the dialectical relationship between education development and economic growth, and the relationship between education and sustainable development; establishes educational production functions and educational system dynamics models; conducts a quantitative analysis of the contribution of education to economic growth; and proposes policy recommendations for educational innovation, economic growth, and educational development. The key focus of the book is reflected in: , the dialectical positive correlation between education—human capital—technology—economic growth; second, based on the dialectical relationship between education and economic growth, as well as the two pathways through which education influences economic growth, it constructs educational production functions and translog production functions, measuring the contributions of education at different levels to economic growth from the perspectives of labor with varying educational backgrounds and human capital; third, based on the dialectical relationship between education and economic growth, it incorporates education into the economic system to construct an educational system dynamics model, measuring the quantitative relationships between education and major macroeconomic variables. It is precisely this innovation in theory and models that makes the proposed policies highly valuable both theoretically and practically. The book consists of fourteen chapters, including: the role of education in China's economic development, the role of education in economic growth, the impact of economic growth on education, education and sustainable development, the quality of educational growth and economic growth, human capital, education and regional economic growth, vocational education and economic growth, lifelong education and economic growth, educational investment and its structure, the quantitative analysis of the contribution of education to economic growth, educational system dynamics models, educational innovation and economic growth, policy recommendations for educational development, and the quality management system of general higher education institutions.