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Research Of Contribution Of Higher Education To Economic Growth In Shaanxi Province

Posted on:2008-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215465129Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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In the era of knowledge economy, knowledge has become the most important means of production instead of material capital. Thus higher education is more closely related with social and economic development in that it steps out of the boundary to the center and becomes the engine for the social, economic and technological development. Shaanxi is a typical province of "a big one for higher education, a small one for economics". The situation has resulted a lot of problems.The paper tries to discuss the low contribution of higher education to economic growth and the inconsistent relationship between higher education and economic growth in shaanxi province, based on the theory and method of human capital and educational economics. The paper reviews the history of the development of shaanxi's higher education and economic state, estimates the ratio of contribution of higher education to shaanxi's economic growth, and puts forward some advice.The paper mainly consists of five parts:The first part introduces the relevant fundamental theories, such as the foreign education economics and human capital theory since 60s of 20th century, and national scholars' researches about higher education and economic growth.The second part reviews shaanxi's general situation of the development of higher education and economics, then puts forward the question of low contribution ratio and the growth of higher education through man-made expend, not through oneself development.The third part analyzes the restrict function of economy versus higher education, puts light on the problem of slow development of higher education, puts out that the low level of shaanxi's economy is the root of slow development.The four part studies the contribution of higher education to economic growth with production function, calculates the ratio of contribution, contrasts to others' outcome.The last tries to present solution and advice to co-develop the higher education and economics growth. The advice includes: to compensate shaanxi's graduates "go out" by central transfer payment; to reset the orientation and scale of higher education of shaanxi province, to improve the outcome of institution-university-company cooperation.The contributions of the paper are two points. One is to analyz the origin of "a big province for higher education" of shaanxi. Another is to establish the shaanxi's production function model contained input of education and calculating the ratio of contribution of higher education to shaanxi's economic growth.
Keywords/Search Tags:higher education, economic growth, shaanxi province, contribution ratio of higher education, production function
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