Human Capital Development, Remittances, and Poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries: What Do the Data Tell Us?

• Authors: Kunofiwa Tsaurai

Title variants

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Rozwój kapitału ludzkiego, przekazy pieniężne i ubóstwo w krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodniej: co mówią nam dane?

Abstracts

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Opracowanie przedstawia analizę wpływu rozwoju kapitału ludzkiego na poziom ubóstwa w krajach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej (CEEC) przy użyciu dynamicznych uogólnionych metod momentów (GMM), metody efektów stałych, efektów losowych i metody pooled OLS na podstawie danych panelowych z okresu 2008–2019. Wykorzystując te same metody analizy danych panelowych i zestaw danych, zbadano również wpływ komplementarności między rozwojem kapitału ludzkiego a osobistymi przekazami pieniężnymi na ubóstwo w krajach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej. Powodem podjęcia tego tematu był fakt, że dostępna na ten temat literatura jest niepełna, rozbieżna i bardzo sprzeczna. Poziom ubóstwa z roku poprzedniego, przekazy pieniężne, interakcje między rozwojem kapitału ludzkiego a przekazami pieniężnymi, otwartość na handel, bezrobocie i częściowo rozwój finansowy znacznie zwiększyły wskaźniki śmiertelności niemowląt w krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodniej. Z drugiej strony stwierdzono, że rozwój kapitału ludzkiego, rozwój infrastruktury i częściowo rozwój finansowy zmniejszyły wskaźniki śmiertelności niemowląt. Wyniki te oznaczają, że rozwój kapitału ludzkiego, rozwój finansowy i rozwój infrastruktury ograniczyły ubóstwo w krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodniej w badanym okresie. W związku z tym wzywa się kraje Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej do opracowania i wdrożenia polityki rozwoju finansowego, rozwoju infrastruktury i rozwoju kapitału ludzkiego w celu zwalczania ubóstwa. Przyszłe badania empiryczne mogłyby również wykazać, przy jakim poziomie rozwoju kapitału ludzkiego, rozwoju finansowego i infrastrukturalnego możliwa byłaby znacząca redukcja ubóstwa w krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodniej.

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The study investigates the impact of human capital development on poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) using dynamic generalized methods of moments (GMM), fixed effects, random effects, and pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) with panel data ranging from 2008 to 2019. Using the same panel data analysis methods and data set, the study also explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs. What triggered the investigation into this topic is that the available literature on the subject matter is mixed, divergent, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and remittances, trade openness, unemployment, and partly financial development significantly increased infant mortality rates in CEECs. On the other hand, human capital development, infrastructural development, and partly financial development were found to have reduced infant mortality rates. These results mean that human capital development, financial development, and infrastructural development reduced poverty in CEECs during the period under study. Central and Eastern European Countries are therefore urged to craft and implement financial development, infrastructural development, and human capital development enhancement policies to combat poverty. Future empirical research could also investigate at what threshold the level of human capital development, financial and infrastructural development would poverty be significantly reduced in CEECs.

Keywords

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rozwój kapitału ludzkiego; przekazy pieniężne; ubóstwo; analiza danych panelowych

EN

human capital development; remittances; poverty; panel data analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-38

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Kunofiwa Tsaurai

• Ph.D., Full Professor at the University of South Africa, Department of Finance Risk Management and Banking, Pretoria, South Africa

• https://orcid.org/0000000180411181

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1508-2008.25.02

Biblioteka Nauki

2033915