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Effectiveness of Education on Economic Development in Asia:

Effectiveness of Education on Economic Development in Asia: A New Policy Modelling Approach for Public Services Equalisation 18 Aug 2008 Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok. Tran Van Hoa

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Effectiveness of Education on Economic Development in Asia:

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  1. Effectiveness of Education on Economic Development in Asia: A New Policy Modelling Approach for Public Services Equalisation 18 Aug 2008Faculty of Economics,Thammasat University, Bangkok

  2. Tran Van Hoa Professor and Director, Vietnam and East Asia Summit Research ProgramCentre for Strategic Economic StudiesVictoria University, Melbourne, VIC 8001, AustraliaEmail: jimmy.tran@vu.edu.au; Website: http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/CSESBL/

  3. ABSTRACT • The paper uses a new endogenous growth regression model to explore the impact of education on growth in China and India • To inform debates on public services equalisation effectiveness and regional competitiveness policy • Under increasing global economic integration, robust domestic reforms and damaging regional crises and natural disasters.

  4. TREND IN MAJOR PUBLIC SERVICES: CHINA

  5. CHINA PUBLIC SERVICES: HISTORICAL PATTERN • Education and Health: Largest • Followed by Administrative Expenses • Both are Parallel and Rising • Rural Support Stable • Pensions Payment Lowest and Slowly Rising • Innovation, Policy Expenses Falling

  6. TREND IN MAJOR PUBLIC SERVICES: INDIA

  7. INDIA PUBLIC SERVICES: HISTORICAL PATTERN • Energy: Largest but Falling • Education: Low and Slowly Rising • Health: Peaked late 1990s but Falling in Mid-2000s • Rural Support: Stable but Falling

  8. MEAN (1986-2005) SHARES OF MAJOR SERVICES: CHINA

  9. ITEMS OF NOTE: CHINA • Education and Health: Largest • Followed by Administrative Expenses • Rural and Innovation-Science-Technology (IST): Almost Equal Shares • New Tax Burden (Gao 2006)-> Public Service Efficiency • Research Focus: What are Contributions of Education & Health, Rural and IST Support to China’s Growth?

  10. MEAN (1992-2005) SHARES OF MAJOR SERVICES: INDIA

  11. ITEMS OF NOTE: INDIA • Education & Health Expenditure: Less Than Half of the Share in China • Rural Support: Similar Share as in China • Are India’s Public Expenditures Efficient? • Research Focus: What are Contributions of Education & Health, and Rural Support to India’s Growth?

  12. DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH PATH:CHINA & INDIA

  13. EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT CAUSALILTY ISSUES • Multitude of Growth Theories (Levine & Renelt 1992) • ‘Applied’ Nature of Economic Development (Krueger 2007) • Inherent Interdependent Characteristics of Activities in Development (Krueger 2007) • Nonlinear Features of Development Causality Relationship (Minier 2007)

  14. EXISTING CAUSALITY & IMPACT METHODOLOGIES FOR GROWTH • Descriptive Analysis: • Correlative and no Testable Causality • CGE: • Essentially confirmatory in nature • Growth Regression: • No circular causality or endogeneity specified • Limitations in Functional Form • No Country-Specific Characteristics • Credible Realism for Policy:Weak

  15. ENDOGENOUS EDUCATION-GROWTH THEORY • Keynesian-SNA93 Income Identity & Sources of Growth: Y=C+I+G+X-IM • Endogenous Education-Growth Regression (TVH 2004, Edwards 2007) • Y=Y(E,R,FDI,S) • E=E(Y,FDI,X,W,S) • R=R(Y,FDI,X,W,S) • Taylor Planar Approximations (TVH 1992, Baier & Bergstrand 2008) • Y%=a1+a2E%+a3R%+a4FDI%+a5S + u • E%=b1+b2Y%+b3X%+b4W%+b5S + e

  16. Kydland’s Data-Model Consistency Criterion

  17. SUBSTANTIVE FINDINGS:EDUCATION-GROWTH CAUSALITY IN CHINA & INDIA

  18. ARE OUR FINDINGS CREDIBLE?MODELLING CHINA GDP & GDP/HEAD

  19. ARE OUR FINDINGS CREDIBLE?MODELLING INDIA GDP & GDP/HEAD

  20. ARE OUR FINDINGS CREDIBLE?MODELLING CHINA & INDIA EDUCATION EXPENDITURES

  21. IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION REFORMS & PUBLIC SERVICE EQUALISATION IN CHINA 1 • Education & Health: Strong negative contribution • Rural Support: Weak beneficial impact • Innovation-Science-Technology Support: Strong negative effect

  22. IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION REFORMS & PUBLIC SERVICE EQUALISATION IN CHINA 2 • Policy Implications (see also OECD & WB 08): • Support for Education & Health Efficiency Reforms • Support for More Rural Expenditure • Support for Innovation, Science & Technology Efficiency Reforms • Need for research on Administrative impact on growth • ODA: Beneficial but weak impact on growth

  23. IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA & INDIA REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS 1 • India’s more efficiency in education and health expenditures • This is exacerbated by their much smaller shares in public service expenditure • India’s slightly more efficiency in rural support contribution to growth • This may be attenuated by India’s slightly higher public expenditure in rural programs

  24. IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA & INDIA REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS 2 • In both countries, good reforms contribute far more to growth than expenditure on public services • India’s good reforms achieve higher growth returns than China’s. • However, China’s much higher efficiency in FDI utilisation (underscoring FDI-led growth)

  25. IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (BASIC SERVICES) EQUALISATION • OECD-WB: Recommend China’s education expenditure scale to reach OECD (24%) level • Our findings indicate that, while increasing China’s expenditure on education is important, improving education efficiency is a higher priority • Improving public expenditure share on education in India however improves its growth

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