The development of information technologies has produced an essential change both in terms of knowledge acquisition needs and the way study programs are offered in educational institutions. Nowadays distance education is becoming widespread in many countries of the world. It has a number of...

This paper empirically examines the effects of different types of government expenditures, on economic growth in Saudi Arabia. We use different econometric techniques to estimate the short- and long-run effects of these expenditures on growth and employ annual data over the period 1969-2010. Our...

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country’s labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad...

Variations in different household expenditures across urban households in the Republic of Uganda are studied using a survey data. Multivariate Tobit estimation method is employed to quantify the effects of various factors, including household income. Expenditure elasticities of income vary...

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad after...

Kenya’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual progress report highlights that sound macroeconomic management policies are finally beginning to yield results in terms of macroeconomic growth, which is the underpinning for future poverty reduction. A high degree of price stability has been...

This paper studies the effects of public expenditure reallocations on long-run growth. To do this, we assemble a new dataset based on the IMF’s GFS yearbook for the period 1970-2010 and 56 countries (14 low-, 16 medium-, and 26 high-income countries). Using dynamic panel GMM estimators, we...

The thoroughness of knowledge economy, makes the countries’ economic potential increasingly dependant on the qualities attributed to the human factor within the education system. Education in the Republic of Moldova is declared by law the number one national priority; this priority of...