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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Development impact of higher education in Africa: The case of Uganda	
Autores: 	Obowna,   Marios; Ssewanyana,   Sarah N.	
Data: 	2010-09-29	
Ano: 	2007	
Palavras-chave: 	Education; Universities; GDP; Ssewanyana; EPRC; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.	
Resumo: 	Using macro data from a series of household surveys, the paper demonstrates that to some extent there is positive correlation between per capita GDP growth and student enrollment in public universities in Uganda. It also finds that the higher education graduates employed in those sectors which have recorded higher growth rates. The higher education graduates do contribute to the economy indirectly through tax revenues which are in turn used to support social programs among others that benefit the society at large. the paper also demonstrates that the share of taxes from higher education graduates has been increasing over time...	
Tipo: 	Report	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/94208	
Relação: 	Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)&gt;Research Series

Research Series

48	
Formato: 	34