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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"capital stocks"”.
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The role of institutions in Shaping foreign capital: Evidence from South Africa and Zimbabwe
… (particularly property rights) on foreign capital in two Southern African countries (namely Zimbabwe and South Africa). This is motivated by the recent theoretical emphasis on the role played by institutional factors such as property rights protection and the rule of law in determining …
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Institutional Resilience of Community-based Conservation to the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
… data were collected and analyzed. I estimated capital stocks and assessed the organizational resilience of each CAMC during and following the Maoist insurgency. I used confirmatory factor analysis to develop scales for measuring the two theoretical constructs of legitimacy and institutional …
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Environmental Accounting of Marine Protected Area "Isole Ciclopi" by means of Emergy analysis
… of the reserves in order to assess the Natural Capital stocks and the Ecosystem Services generated by MPAs. The results of the research are intended to offer an innovative methodology and new points of reflection in the field of environmental evaluation and of policies.
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Three Essays on Migration Economics
… of this effect works through accumulation of capital stocks and provide evidence suggesting that immigrants trigger the development of technologies that complement them. Thus, I show that altering the labour mix produces effects that go beyond simple differences in marginal products and …
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Appropriate technology, human capital, and economic development
This research focuses on the role of human capital in explaining cross-country productivity differences, and in shaping the world allocation of capital stocks. A widely held view is that a country's ability to absorb and implement technologies is tied to its human capital. We construct a novel …
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Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
… of an economy, which is a linear index of its capital asset stocks. Changes to IW per capita over time track changes to intergenerational human well-being, thus non-declining IW per capita indicates sustainable development. National IW has only been measured retrospectively; this dissertation …