Human development and planning is one of the most prominent activities in any country. There are several factors that can be effective in achieving this. One of the key elements in this way is ICT. In recent decades, this technology has evolved widely across all social and economic spheres and has had a profound impact on organizations, human resources and the economics of micro and macro societies. Considering the impact of using information and communication technology can be a good way to increase the level of productivity and development of each country. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology on human development index. Therefore, the investigated model has been using panel data for 15 selected developing countries over the period of 2012 to 2017. The estimation results show that ICT has a positive and significant effect on human development index. While foreign direct investment and value added have a positive impact and inflation has a negative impact on the human development index.

R&D is one of the important factors affecting economic growth. Increased use of R&D will increase competition in manufacturing sectors, which will have a positive impact on the economy, improving product quality and diversity and improving productivity, which will increase production itself. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of R&D spending on economic growth using the GMM method for the 15 selected OECD countries from 2012 to 2018. The estimation results show that R&D has had a positive and significant effect on economic growth in the countries studied. Also, GDP of the last year, exchange rate and tax have had a positive impact on economic growth.

Developments and rapid changes in the international community, moving from traditional society to the information society, as well as changing the national economy to the global economy, require different solutions to enable economic growth and development in society. In fact, entrepreneurship, which is the concept of the discovery and exploitation of opportunities for value creation in the various sectors, is the basis for an all-round development. For this reason, to develop the countries pay special attention to the entrepreneurship is very important. So, this study is trying to investigate the effects of entrepreneurship and education on economic growth in 25 selected countries using the panel-data method in the period of 2001 to 2015. The results show that entrepreneurship and education have positive effects on economic growth, so that by increasing one percent of each variable, respectively, economic growth will increase by 0.41 and 0.21 percent. Badri, A. K. | Department of Economics, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

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