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31. Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu In this paper, we demonstrate that there is a robust negative relationship between the size of country territory and a measure of the rule of law for a large cross-section of countries. We outline a theoretical framework featuring two main reasons for this regularity; firstly that institutional quality often has the character of a local public good that is imperfectly spread across space from the core of the country to the hinterland, and secondly that a large territory usually is accompanied by valuable rents and a lack of openness that both tend to distort property rights institutions. LÄS MER
32. Företagets immateriella investeringar : En begreppsutredning = Intangibles as an object for capital investment
Sammanfattning : Normally the concept of capita! investment refers to tangibles. The resource allocation process deals in this case with the problem of acquiring different kinds of "physical facilities". However, if the concept of capita! investment is made to apply to intangibles, the question of definition becomes confusing. LÄS MER
33. Essays on investment in human capital
Sammanfattning : Heterogeneous On-the-job Training: Implications for the Specification and Estimation of the human Capital Earnings FunctionDespite the centrality of heterogeneous on-the-job training in human capital theory, this is rarely accounted for in the estimation. The empirical findings indicate that individual-specific components in the earnings function are stochastic. LÄS MER
34. The village that vanished : The roots of erosion in a Tanzanian village
Sammanfattning : In the village'of Citing in the northern highlands of Tanzania, the factors: social stratification, land tenure, production strategies, investment patterns and the economic uncertainties of society are studied and their relationship to land degradation is examined. The main assumption of the study is that the causes of land degradation are so complex that a methodology that emphasises contextualisation has to be used. LÄS MER
35. Accumulation from Below : Smallholders and public irrigation investments in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Smallholders in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa are increasingly differentiated. This thesis contributes to the empirical and conceptual understanding of the differentiation processes in irrigation by following the internal dynamics among smallholders linked to public investments in improving smallholder initiated small scale irrigation schemes in Kilombero district, Tanzania. LÄS MER
