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Petersen, Hans-Georg. "The polit-economic situation in germany : chances for changes in resource and energy economics." Universität Potsdam, 2002. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/886/.
Full textRegional Management, Land Use and Energy Production
-Biophysical View
-First Hypothesis
-International and Interregional Cooperation
-Second Hypothesis
-Partnership with Nature
Sustainability and the Agricultural Sector
-Traditional Farming
-Mono-cultural Bio-industry
-Liquid Manure Problems
-Clean Drinking Water
-Integrated Agro-industrial System
-Ecological Farming
-Ecotones and Bio-manipulation
Regional Economic and Agricultural Policy
-New Roles for the Agricultural Sector
Wong, Chi-kwong Patrick, and 黃志光. "Economic changes in rural China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31954509.
Full textWong, Chi-kwong Patrick. "Economic changes in rural China." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B15967487.
Full textBraude, Jacob 1969. "Economic effects of demographic changes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9007.
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This thesis examines several economic implications of demographic changes. Chapter 2 documents a relation between the age structure of economies and their real exchange rate. The relation varies with the level of development. Among developed countries a 10 percentage point higher ratio of old people to the working age population is associated with a 12-15 percent higher price level. In middle income developing economies, a 10 percentage point increase in the ratio of children to the working age population is related to a 4 percent increase in the price level. A simple model attributes the findings to the effect of the age groups on the demand for nontradables. Its calibration indicates that this explanation can account for a substantial part of the observed effect of the elderly. It is also consistent with the much smaller impact of children. The fact that the significance of the elderly is limited to developed countries further supports the argument. The generational conflict hypothesis argues that the elderly might use their political power to reduce public resources for children. It is usually tested by exploiting the localized nature of school funding in the US. Chapter 3 takes a different approach using cross-country data on family benefits. I find a positive relation at the national level between the generosity of these benefits and the share of the elderly in the electorate. The findings can add to the debate on local school funding. I also suggest that the effect of the elderly may reflect the larger proportion of women among them. Chapter 4 shows that individuals with no post-secondary education are less supportive of public R&D spending. This points to possible political economy causes of technological change. A high proportion of educated voters may accelerate such change by expanding public R&D outlays. Thus an increased supply of skilled workers could raise the relative demand for them. The difference in support for R&D spending suggests that it favors skilled workers either by directly employing them or indirectly by generating skill-biased technological change.
by Jacob Braude.
Ph.D.
Parnell, Alan Kenneth. "Modelling climate change and socio-economic impacts within three regions of Scotland, 1970-2100." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2135.
Full textCampanelli, Giuliana. "Growth and structural changes of the Italian economy : 1960-79." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335704.
Full textNishant, Chadha. "Essays on Indian economic development and political changes." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44002.
Full textHousseini, Bouba. "Essays on demographic changes, health and economic development." Thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2014/30745/30745.pdf.
Full textIn a context of demographic changes, my PhD thesis aims to clarify two main questions: i)how the progress of nations can be evaluated when populations differ in size, longevity and income distribution? and ii)what are the effects of fertility and mortality on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? The first part (chapters 1 and 2) elucidates how changes in population size, longevity and income distribution can be socially evaluated while the second part (chapter 3) provides a public policy framework and insights on how the demographic dividend can be captured in the Sub-Saharan Africa context. I adopt two different approaches to analyse these questions. The first part uses a welfarist method that develops and applies (to SSA) intertemporal social evaluation functions and criteria suitable to variable populations. The second part uses an econometric approach that develops and estimates a simultaneous equations model of the determinants of mortality, fertility and economic performance using country-level panel data from SSA. Chapter 1 explores the use of axiomatic and welfarist principles to assess social welfare in an intertemporal framework. It attempts to overcome some of the limits of existing methods in the literature, in particular by avoiding a temporal repugnant conclusion, by neither penalizing nor favoring life fragmentation, and by satisfying critical-level temporal consistency. It does this by characterizing a critical-level lifetime utility function that values life periodically. To address some of the controversies in discounting utilities across time, two alternative versions of the function are developed, one with discounting and one without. Chapter 2 focusses on how the progress of nations can be evaluated when populations differ in size, longevity and income distributions. The framework is applied to the (particular) demographic context of SSA. The findings indicate that the contribution of population size to social welfare depends on ethical considerations regarding the choice of a critical level above which a life is considered to be worth living (or social welfare improving). Length of life does not have a significant effect on social welfare prior to the demographic transition. SSA’s demographic explosion over the last century has worsened social welfare for critical-level values greater than $180 per year, i.e. roughly half the well-known dollar-a-day poverty line. This supports the often heard view that slowing down demographic growth in SSA may not only increase average living standards but may also raise overall social welfare. Chapter 3 develops and estimates an econometric model of the joint determinants of fertility, mortality and economic performance in SSA in order to identify public policy actions to accelerate the demographic transition in the region and consequently to achieve its corollary demographic dividend. The analysis builds on a simultaneous equations econometric model using multi-country panel data for the period 1960 - 2010. To deal with endogeneity, we use the instrumental variable approach, exploiting different sources of exogenous variations of per capita income, fertility and mortality. The results show that each additional year of life expectancy at birth implies a growth of per capita income of 13.1%. Also, a doubling of per capita income leads to a rise in longevity of 6.3 years. However the relationships between fertility and both per capita income and life expectancy at birth appear to be ambiguous probably due to the dependency of SSA economies on natural resources and international trade. Our findings point to the necessity of fostering the structural transformation of SSA economies in order to accelerate the demographic transition in the region and to capture the demographic dividend.
Adedeji, T. A. "Changes in the financing behaviour of companies in the U.K : 1972-82." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482954.
Full textChiu, Wat Sin Mi Simmy, and 屈倩薇. "Socio-economic structural changes and income distribution in HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975768.
Full textCvejn, Michal. "Do markets notice economic policymaker changes? An event study." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-135903.
Full textBoussios, David. "Kansas grain supply response to economic and biophysical changes." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13594.
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Andrew Barkley
This research identifies and quantifies the impact of biophysical and economic variables on Kansas crop acreage and yields for the period 1977- 2007. Due to long production time requirements, agricultural producers must make vital decisions with imperfect information, based on expectations of future agronomic and economic conditions. This research analyzes the impact of price, climate, and yield expectations on crop acreage allocations and yield responses for the four major commodities produced in Kansas: corn, soybeans, wheat, and grain sorghum (milo). By modeling and analyzing both biophysical and economic variables, total supply response can be estimated for potential future changes in prices, yields, climate, and weather outcomes. The analysis of both biophysical and economic conditions allows for the estimation of supply response in the short and long run. The results provide updated, more precise results than previous research, which has often separated acreage and yield response.
Amitabh, F. "Residential land price changes in selected peripheral colonies of Lucknow City, India, 1970-1990." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385650.
Full textRoux, Louis Johannes. "Climate change mitigation strategies and its effect on economic change." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020816.
Full textOmran, Mohammed Fawzy. "Modelling the probability distribution of the time series stock price changes in the U.K. market." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1997. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21370.
Full textChiu, Wat Sin Mi Simmy. "Socio-economic structural changes and income distribution in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975768.
Full textSennfält, Karin. "Economic studies of health technology changes in prostate cancer care /." Linköping : Center for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Healt and Society, Linköping University, 2005. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2005/med889s.pdf.
Full textRajewski, Alice. "Changes in the Russian terminology of economic law since Perestroika." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286428.
Full textWard, A. V. "Economic changes in the U.K. food manufacturing industry 1919-39." Thesis, University of Reading, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254852.
Full textAbdel-Rahman, Basiouni Ali. "The socio-economic changes in an Egyptian village, 1950-1980." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337083.
Full textLoichinger, Elke, and Alexia Prskawetz. "Changes in economic activity: The role of age and education." Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.40.
Full textZowall, Hanna. "Structural changes in the major OECD countries between 1960 and 1980." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65994.
Full textAnwar, Tilat. "Changes in poverty and inequality in Pakistan during a period of structural adjustment (1987-88 to 1990-91)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360547.
Full textEklund, Tomas. "Productivity Changes in Eastern Europe? : What lies behind the economic growth?" Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-353.
Full textThere is something happening in Central Eastern Europe and the Baltic
States. There is an economic boom and the GDP is growing. But, what causes the economy to grow? Is the explanation factor accumulation or is there a technologic growth. The long-term growth in East Asia from 1960 to 1997 was misinterpreted by many. The purpose of this thesis is to determine how large the total factor productivity growth has been in Central Eastern Europe and the Baltic States between 1996 and 2001. The stated purpose is being tested by using growth accounting.
The result differs between countries; some countries have a strong technological growth while others’ GDP growth is dependent on factor accumulation. The result of the latter, if it will continue, is a downturn in the GDP growth since it is not viable in the long term.
Vad är det som händer i Centrala Östeuropa och de Baltiska staterna? Deras ekonomier växer, men frågan är vad tillväxten kommer ifrån. Är det faktorackumulation eller teknologisk tillväxt? Den långvariga tillväxten i Östra Asien från 1960-talet fram till slutet av 1990-talet misstolkades av många. I den här uppsatsen undersöks vad som ligger till grund för tillväxten i de tidigare kommunistländerna.
Med hjälp av ”growth accounting” estimeras vad var och en av kapital, arbetskraft och teknologisk utveckling bidrar med till utvecklingen.
Resultatet var inte likartat för alla undersökta länder. Vissa länder hade en stark teknologisk tillväxt under den undersökta perioden, medan andra länders tillväxt enbart berodde på faktorackumulation. Resultatet av den senare, om detta kommer att fortsätta, är att tillväxten kommer att avta då faktorackumulerad tillväxt inte är långsiktig.
Herath, Deepananda P. "An economic analysis of structural changes in Sri Lankan tea industry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ65824.pdf.
Full textKeeratipongpaiboon, Thuttai. "Population ageing : changes in household composition and economic behaviour in Thailand." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14570/.
Full textAl-Sanafi, Nawal H. A. "The influence of socio-economic changes on house design in Kuwait." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367726.
Full textGhazali, Suriati. "Socio-economic changes in the peri-urban villages in Penang, Malaysia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402430.
Full textThakur, Sudhir K. "Structure and structural changes in India: A fundamental economic structure approach." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092857658.
Full textLIU, ZHONGWEI. "WATER QUALITY SIMULATION AND ECONOMIC VALUATION OF RIPARIAN LAND-USE CHANGES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1153507620.
Full textLindahl, Mattias, and Tomohiko Sakao. "Environmental and Economic Contribution of Design Changes in Integrated Product Service Offerings." Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-92748.
Full textOzbeklik, Ismail Serkan. "Impact of legal and public policy changes on social and economic behavior." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185350130.
Full textKim, Hak-Hoon. "Economic convergence and urban growth: Structural changes in the Arizona urban system." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186196.
Full textMartin, R. J. "Changes in the economic and social structure of Soviet Azerbaijan, 1970-1990." Thesis, Swansea University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638015.
Full textBanerjee, Shuvojit. "Structural changes in East Asia : factor accumulation, technological progress and economic geography." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1807/.
Full textMathew, Marina. "An investigation of the structural changes in the economic development of Malaysia." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318300.
Full textRajewsky, Alice [Verfasser]. "Changes in the Russian Terminology of Economic Law since Perestroika / Alice Rajewsky." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000. http://d-nb.info/116547851X/34.
Full textNdofula, Elizabeth Jaria. "Economic appraisal of changes to the South African tax system since 1990." University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4312.
Full textCountries reform their tax systems to improve economic and administrative efficiency, the impact on income distribution and their revenue-raising capacity. Globalisation has also affected the fiscal autonomy of countries and resulted in the reality of tax competition. The South African tax authorities have made significant changes to the tax system in over the past 20 years. The first phase occurred after the publication of the Margo Commission’s report in 1987 and the second phase followed the work done by the Katz Commission since 1996. The objectives of the reforms included the improvement of tax administration and collection, a re-evaluation of the efficiency and equity aspects of the different taxes, the broadening of the tax base, and most important, to bring the South African tax system in line with changing international tax practise.The main objectives of this study are to give a descriptive overview of the reforms, to investigate the economic rationale behind the reforms and to answer the question of whether the objectives of the reforms were actually achieved. The study fills an important void in the South African literature as it is the first comprehensive overview of the tax reforms since the 1990s.The nature of the study is qualitative and investigative. An overview of the theoretical literature is presented together with some evidence from developing countries. To determine whether the objectives were achieved, descriptive statistics are presented using secondary data from South African Revenue Service (SARS); National Treasury, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). The main findings are that the establishment of SARS contributed significantly to the administrative efficiency and revenue-raising capacity of the tax system. The taxing of fringe benefits under the personal income tax, the introduction of capital gains tax (CGT) and the residence-based principle contributed to the broadening of the tax base. The decrease of marginal rates of personal income tax (PIT) to be more in line with the rate on company income decreased the possibility of tax arbitrage. The phasing out of the secondary tax on companies together with the decrease of the rate of company income tax (CIT) increased the attractiveness of South Africa for capital-exporting countries. Significant tax relief to middle and lower-income earners over various years improved the equity impact. However it did not improve the position of the really poor, who are not liable for PIT. The increasing contribution of value-added tax (VAT) compensated to the decreasing contribution of trade taxes; the fact that the VAT rate has stayed constant, since 1993 is an indication of the unpopularity of the tax.
Razafimandimby, Andrianjaka Riana Ny Aina. "Three essays on economic transformation and distributional changes in middle-income countries." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0364.
Full textThis thesis studies distributional and economic changes in middle-income countries. After reviewing the literature on the middle-income trap, the first essay proposes a straightforward identification and empirical investigation of the differentiating patterns of productive and distributive changes inside the trap. We find evidence of misallocation issues and adverse effect of redistribution on medium-run growth. The focus of the remaining chapters is then put on the middle-class. In the second essay, we estimate the impacts of the middle-class on growth through various channels including household consumption, investment, redistribution and productive transformation. The last essay takes a micro approach by analyzing absolute and intra-class mobility of the middle-class in Turkey between 2010 and 2013. The results suggest the existence of mechanisms of social reproduction and cumulative (dis)advantages that prevent some households from climbing up the ladder
Borel-Saladin, Jacqueline. "Professionalisation or polarisation? : economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6066.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the changes that have occurred in the economy of CapeTown, South Africa over the last half of the 20th century and what the possible effects of this change have been on social inequality. Literature on economic restructuring in cities all over the world provided the framework of ideas within which this analysis was conducted. These works focused on how in many cities. progressive deindustrialisation has led to the loss of middle-income jobs, while growth in the service sector has resulted in greater numbers of high- and low-skill and income jobs. Others argued that most cities economies' were becoming increasingly organised around professional, managerial and technical skills only, and that increased polarisation occurred solely in those cities that were subject to large-scale immigration. The overriding question that emerged from this body of work then was whether the occupational distribution of employment in cities was becoming increasingly polarised or professionalised. Careful examination of population census data on sectoral and occupational changes in the economy of Cape Town showed that the city's working population was becoming increasingly professionalised, and not more polarised. Survey data were also used to dispute the contention that a large unskilled migrant population was a sufficient condition for social polarisation. Theories about the impacts of deindustrialisation and the decline in blue-collar work on unskilledethnic urban minority groups were also discussed. Again, using population census data, it wasshown that the Coloured population had dominated manufacturing employment. Therefore, it wasconcluded that the decline in manufacturing employment would most likely have the greatestnegative impact on Coloured employment levels. This would most likely affect Coloured men most though, as Coloured women were gaining more employment in all the other types of occupations that were growing while blue-collar employment, on which men seemed to rely that much more, was declining. The argument was also made that service sector growth, while leading to increased feminisation of the workforce, also causes women to be segregated into low-skill, low-pay service jobs. However, the data for Cape Town concurred with other author's data that showed that the occupational distributions of both women and men are becoming increasingly professionalised. Some authors argued that the decline in manufacturing jobs and growth in low-skill service sector work favours unskilled women over unskilled men, as the manufacturing sector tended to hire more men and the service sector tends to employ more women. This was shown to be true in the case of Cape Town, with African women dominating unskilled labour by 2001.
Lensing, Christine. "The Economic Implications of Proposed Changes in the Retail Meat Pricing Series." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35906.
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Gurung, Ananda Bahadur. "Impact of Agricultural Productivity Changes on Agricultural Exports." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29760.
Full textMiller, Elizabeth Jill, and res cand@acu edu au. "Burden of Care: Ageing in urban China and Japan: Gender, the family and the state." Australian Catholic University. School of Social Work, 2002. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp22.29082005.
Full textHassan, I. "A techno-economic framework for assessing manufacturing process changes in the biopharmaceutical industry." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1361010/.
Full textSun, Chi. "China's banking reform and economic development: Institutional Transformation and Changes in Industrial Organization." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439771.
Full textVellem, Nomtha. "The impact of oil price changes on selected economic indicators in South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1017862.
Full textKilambo, Sixta Raphael. "Black economic empowerment and changes in ownership and control in South Africa's mining industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22805.
Full textRostov, David. "The sensitivity of Brazil's balance of payments and foreign debt to future changes in world economic conditions: 1987-1991." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1342190790.
Full textSproten, Alec Niklas [Verfasser], and Christiane [Akademischer Betreuer] Schwieren. "Developmental Neuroeconomics: Lifespan Changes in Economic Decision Making / Alec Niklas Sproten ; Betreuer: Christiane Schwieren." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1177040581/34.
Full textAhmed, Afzal. "Portuguese trade and socio-economic changes on the western coast of India (1600-1663) /." Delhi : Originals, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401128685.
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