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It is obvious for countries that development is as much important as economic growth. One of the most important factors that affect both growth and development is the human capital potential of the country. Seize and quality of human capital has a repercussion that affects development process positively and accelerates the process. The most important factors that affect human capital are the properties of education and health sector of a country. It is accepted that quality and quantity of thehuman capital which is progressed via education and health services affects the development process positively. It may be possible both to gather information about human capital of the countries' using their own databases on the education and health sector and benefit from Human Development Index (HDI) which is accepted as the most basic international data. In this paper, the progress of human capital in Turkey is presented by using education and health indicators and HDI data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to find out the long-run relationship between human capital and the current account balances. The panel data analysis is carried out for the time period between 1990 and 2018. 88 developing and developed countries are included in the study. Panel cointegration analysis is applied to test the long-run relationships. The human capital is represented by two indexes. First one is The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) human capital index. Second one is United Nations human development index. For both indexes, there are significant and positive long-run relationships between the human capital indexes and current account balances for high income countries. It is determined that there is a negative, significant and long-term relationship for "all countries except industrialized countries", "all countries except Africa and industrialized countries" and "all countries" groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Islamic banking contracts on the business environment in Iran. In order to collect data and information about the variables in the model, Iranian Central Bank and World Bank website were used in this study. The Auto Regression Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach was used to estimate the model between 1999-2017. According to the research findings, Qardhul Hasan contracts, Exchange contracts and partnership contracts have positive and significant impact on business environment in both short and long term. In addition, the Human Development Index and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have a positive impact on business environment in both short-term and long-term. The negative impact of inflation has been determined in the short and long term business environment in the country. Based on the estimation of the Error Correction Model (ECM), the short-term imbalances of the dependent variable decrease by 54% and move towards long-term equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the statistical classification of regions on Rev.1, Northeast Anatolia Region, East Anatolia Region and Southeastern Anatolia Region are Turkey's economically and socially underdeveloped regions. In Rev.2 distinction, Erzurum, Ağrı, Malatya, Van, Gaziantep, Sanlıurfa and Mardin proviences are sub-regions within this scope. During the planned economy period in Turkey these regions have been an issue for economic and social plan-projects continuously. In order to ensure economic growth, human capital needs to be examined especially. In this study, for seven sub-regions in Turkey the determinants of human capital such as education, health, culture and value-added per capita examined as a consequence of growth to consider the impact of competitiveness. Data used between the years 2007-2011 firstly converted to an index then panel data analysis performed. Effects of health, education, culture and value-added indexes on different regions competitiveness indexes are examined and inter-regional comparisons were carried out. According to panel data application based on regional competitiveness index; cultute and health indexes on TRB2 and TRC2 regions; education and health indexes on TRA1 and TRC1 regions; health and gross value added per capita indexes on TRB1region; culture and education indexes on TRC3 region have negative effects. According to the panel data application on TRA2 region; education, health, culture and gross value added per capita indexes have positive effects on regional competiteveness. From this point, education policies should be revised for he mentioned regions. The policies to be implemented for the development of education also need to be include culture and health policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the statistical classification of regions on Rev.1, Northeast Anatolia Region, East Anatolia Region and Southeastern Anatolia Region are Turkey's economically and socially underdeveloped regions. In Rev.2 distinction, Erzurum, Ağrı, Malatya, Van, Gaziantep, Sanlıurfa and Mardin proviences are sub-regions within this scope. During the planned economy period in Turkey these regions have been an issue for economic and social plan-projects continuously. In order to ensure economic growth, human capital needs to be examined especially. In this study, for seven sub-regions in Turkey the determinants of human capital such as education, health, culture and value-added per capita examined as a consequence of growth to consider the impact of competitiveness. Data used between the years 2007-2011 firstly converted to an index then panel data analysis performed. Effects of health, education, culture and value-added indexes on different regions competitiveness indexes are examined and inter-regional comparisons were carried out. According to panel data application based on regional competitiveness index; cultute and health indexes on TRB2 and TRC2 regions; education and health indexes on TRA1 and TRC1 regions; health and gross value added per capita indexes on TRB1region; culture and education indexes on TRC3 region have negative effects. According to the panel data application on TRA2 region; education, health, culture and gross value added per capita indexes have positive effects on regional competiteveness. From this point, education policies should be revised for he mentioned regions. The policies to be implemented for the development of education also need to be include culture and health policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world economy that go through of agricultural, industrial and knowledge focused revolutions is being fictionalized upon the theories which put forward human and humanity gradually. The concept of human capital has become the one of the basic factors of economic growth. In the study, first of all, the concept of human capital has handled with perspectives of different authors. Then, the perspective of the schools of economic thought on human capital and their theoric debates on how the human capital can be measured has analyzed. In the application section, the indexes of human development, gross value added per capita, culture and regional competitiveness has developed as determinants of human capital. The data used in panel data analysis covers between 2007 and 2011 periods. Seven different models have setup in order to detect interactions between indexes of culture, education, health and regional competitiveness in panel data analysis. So directions of relations between this indexes have revealed. The study aims to fill the deficiency of researches about human capital on NUTS 2 level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the statistical classification of regions on Rev.1, Northeast Anatolia Region, East Anatolia Region and Southeastern Anatolia Region are Turkey's economically and socially underdeveloped regions. In Rev.2 distinction, Erzurum, Ağrı, Malatya, Van, Gaziantep, Sanlıurfa and Mardin proviences are sub-regions within this scope. During the planned economy period in Turkey these regions have been an issue for economic and social plan-projects continuously. In order to ensure economic growth, human capital needs to be examined especially. In this study, for seven sub-regions in Turkey the determinants of human capital such as education, health, culture and value-added per capita examined as a consequence of growth to consider the impact of competitiveness. Data used between the years 2007-2011 firstly converted to an index then panel data analysis performed. Effects of health, education, culture and value-added indexes on different regions competitiveness indexes are examined and inter-regional comparisons were carried out. According to panel data application based on regional competitiveness index; cultute and health indexes on TRB2 and TRC2 regions; education and health indexes on TRA1 and TRC1 regions; health and gross value added per capita indexes on TRB1region; culture and education indexes on TRC3 region have negative effects. According to the panel data application on TRA2 region; education, health, culture and gross value added per capita indexes have positive effects on regional competiteveness. From this point, education policies should be revised for he mentioned regions. The policies to be implemented for the development of education also need to be include culture and health policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The World economy that makes living from agricultural production in ancient times has adopted industrial and knowledge-based production with technological developments. Human highlighted theories have become mandatory with information centered production. Because human capital began to be recognized as the engine of economic growth. In this study, regional development and human capital concepts have been analyzed. In this direction, a panel data analysis has been executed with education and health indicators for 2007 - 2011 period with indexing. It is detected that regional competitiveness, gross value added per capita, health and culture indexes have positive impacts on education index. And also, regional competitiveness and gross value added per capita indexes have the negative impact on health index while education and culture indexes have the positive impact. This study aims to investigate the variables that impact on the level of human capital indicators in NUTS 2 level regions and fill the efficiency of searches on human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of human capital factor for the economic development depends mainly on stable growth for a developing country such as Turkey. In this study human capital factors, economic, social and strategic importance was emphasized. The strengths and weaknesses of human capital in Turkey have been analyzed. Characteristics of human capital concepts, elements, functional status, is closely associated with the concept of social capital, intellectual capital with which other similar concepts are discussed. The development of human capital investment, education, health, training, income and economic development is related to exactly the level of one's life. The aim of this study is to show the importance and elements of the concept of human capital, knowledge and how to use technology developments in the global and national economy. It becomes important, to improve productivity, quality and to create skilled labor, create stable economic growth, uphold competitiveness in the world market and to take advantage as opportunities arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]