Does Human Capital Tilt the Population-Economic Growth Dynamics? Evidence from Middle East and North African Countries

Adeleye, Bosede Ngozi; Bengana, Ismail; Boukhelkhal, Abdelaziz; Shafiq, Mohammad Musa; AbdulKareem, Hauwah K.K.

doi:10.1007/s11205-021-02867-5

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“…Unlike the evidence in the empirical literature that focussed largely on how access to electricity affects the environment, this study conforms to the findings obtained by Candelise et al (2021) on how electricity access promotes food security—a panacea to sustainable growth. As regards the evidence for the population dividend thesis, this study aligns with many empirical literature (see Adeleye et al, 2021; Adenola & Saibu, 2017; Kamarudin et al, 2018; Kuhe, 2019; Mitiku & Alemu, 2019; Ogunleye et al, 2018; Peter & Bakari, 2018; Savas, 2008; Sibe et al, 2016; Thuku et al, 2013). More importantly, the balanced view holds sway, as population became a negligible factor after the 97.5th percentile threshold.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Not surprising, the above robust theoretical stance has forced robust empirical examinations on the effect of population growth on economic growth. Studies that espoused population dividend view are numerous (such as Savas, 2008; Thuku et al, 2013; Sibe et al, 2016; Ogunleye et al, 2018; Peter & Bakari, 2018; Adenola & Saibu, 2017; Kamarudin et al, 2018; Mitiku & Alemu, 2019; Kuhe, 2019; Adeleye et al, 2021). Those that affirmed population as a burden are also numerous (e.g.…”

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Electricity access, demographic transition and sustainable growth in frontier economies

Ayinde

Adeyemi

Fatai³

2022

OPEC Energy Review

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Electricity is one of the components of energy composition. In fact, it is a secondary source of energy as it is convertible to other sources of energy for the use of industry and homes and for nuclear powers. Access to electricity is a sine-quanon to industrial revolution all over the world. It is a precondition to the massive industrialisation progress witnessed by the Asian Tigers and evidence is not in doubt about any individual country or regional bloc that desire to replicate this development success stories, following the same route. These tremendous industrialisation achievements drastically reduced poverty, in these countries and specifically, in South Korea to an appreciable level of 4.6 per cent in 1984 from 40.9 per cent in 1965. This indicates that industrialisation of the Asian Tigers was growth enhancing and poverty reducing; altogether culminating into the development experienced today by those Asian countries. Interestingly, population grew moderately in these countries during the period of industrial revolution and for all periods. Precisely, the population growth rates of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan were 0.82, 0.79, 0.09 and 0.18, respectively. Put together, the population growth rate for these countries was less than 2.0 per cent. However, the proponents of the population dividend, without prejudice to the population burden thesis, presuppose that population growth is not a problem for development, provided it is qualitative enough to contributive to the development process.

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Electricity access, demographic transition and sustainable growth in frontier economies

Ayinde

Adeyemi

Fatai³

2022

OPEC Energy Review

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“…As expected, urbanization puts pressure on available health facilities culminating in high morality rates from about 0.13 to 0.24 percent (Shobande, 2020) [ 8 ]. Similarly, female education and access to basic sanitation significantly contributes to reducing mortality rates [ 8 , 9 , 71 , 72 ]. The income group dummies reveal that middle-income countries have significantly higher morality rates than high income country (base dummy) whose coefficient is captured by the constant term.…”

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Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

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This study exclusively contributes to the health-environment discourse by using mortality rates, carbon emissions (proxy for environmental degradation), renewable energy and real per capita income to investigate these intrinsic relationships. This study uses an unbalanced sample of 47 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2005–2019 to reveal that: (1) both carbon emissions and renewable energy are associated with higher mortality rates; (2) real per capita income is associated with reducing mortality rates; (3) per capita income attenuates the effect of renewable energy on mortality rates, (4) persistency in mortalities exist; and (5) the health-environment-energy-income dynamics differ across income groups. Additionally, this study submits that the interaction of renewable energy and real per capita income dampens the positive effect of renewable energy on mortality rates and supports the argument that income levels lessen the extent of mortalities. Besides, these results vividly show that real per capita income reduces the devastating effect of renewable energy on infant and under-5 mortality rates from 0.942% to 0.09%, 2.42% to 0.55%, 1.04% to 0.09% and 2.8% to 0.64% for high and middle-income countries, respectively. This is a novel and significant contribution to the health-environment literature. Hence, real per capita income is a crucial determinant of mortality rate. Policy recommendations are discussed.

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“…Furthermore, we must discuss the impact of savings and population growth rates on both human capital and economic growth in the analysis, as is the case in several recent papers [ [25] , [26] , [27] ]. In early literature, such as Hall and Jones [ 14 ], the share of physical capital in output was estimated to be 1/3.…”

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Modeling economic growth factors in Egypt: A quantile regression approach

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2023

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Does Human Capital Tilt the Population-Economic Growth Dynamics? Evidence from Middle East and North African Countries

Cited by 40 publications

References 76 publications

Electricity access, demographic transition and sustainable growth in frontier economies

Electricity access, demographic transition and sustainable growth in frontier economies

Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Modeling economic growth factors in Egypt: A quantile regression approach

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