Is higher education a driving force of economic growth in Uzbekistan?

• Authors: Akram Ochilov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article describes how accumulated knowledge is becoming as a driving force of economic growth and social development in Uzbekistan. The article discusses the achievements and challenges of education and its role in fostering of economic growth of Uzbekistan. Education is admitted to be one of the driving forces of the knowledge based economy. In particular, along with the capital and human resources the quantity and quality of education in general, higher education particularly, may have significant effect on economic growth. The research attempted to determine the existence of correlation between quantity/quality of higher education and the economic growth in Uzbekistan. Regression estimation with GDP growth as dependent variable and number and quality of graduates, per graduator costs as well as accumulated average year of schooling as independent variables revealed strong relationship between higher education and economic growth in Uzbekistan.

Keywords

EN

Uzbekistan; higher education; knowledge economy; quality of education; economic growth

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS
• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 160-174

Dates

published

2014-11-20

Contributors

author

Akram Ochilov

• Faculty of Economics, Karshi State University, Uzbekistan

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2014.19