Economic activities are lacking in many townships around South Africa. The newly developed Reconstruction and Development Programme townships are also facing the problem of encouraging economic activities. These townships are always criticized for being overcrowded by the people who are unable to support economic activities because of lack of capacity to be employed. This study adopted assets pentagon method to find the assets which the people have in the township which they can use to support and encourage economic activities in the area. Assets Pentagon method includes social and political capital, human capital, physical capital, financial capital and natural capital. The availability of these assets in the township will be vital to encourage and support economic activities

In this paper, we first proposed the regional physical capital, and the regional physical capital of the importance of risk sharing. The ten countries of East Asia face the risk into international capital markets, regional physical capital, and international trade of these three risk sharing channels, and use of GDP variance decomposition method to measure the three channels risk sharing situation. The empirical results show that¡G1.East Asia regional physical capital to absorb the impact of GDP for very large. 2.International capital markets played a very small role. 3.The increasing integration of the international trade market will reduce the risk sharing. 4.The East Asian region can not spread the risks as high as 80%, but this phenomenon after the Asian financial crisis has gradually reduced its risk can not be assessed, there have been similar OECD countries only 60% of the standard. This study also explains the international trade market will result in reducing the risk of trade of the reasons for risk sharing: 1. Importers and exporters through the credit agreement will be the number of commodity prices and the sale and purchase agreement has been through pre-determined, so risk can not be assessed the situation. 2. Trade flows do not contribute to cross-country consumption smoothing, is that central bank attempt to neutralize the impact of foreign capital inflows on domestic credit market.

This study explores male students’ experiences in physical education in an urban secondary high school in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of body habitus, social, and physical capital, the purpose of this qualitative case study is to develop a better understanding of Saudi youth body dispositions that influence their experiences in physical education. The paper reports upon data generated by semi-structured interviews with 27 male students between the ages of 15 and 20, all of whom attended one public secondary school in Makkah during the fall of 2012. The PE teacher and the school director were also interviewed. The study emphasizes that the early childhood experiences in particular the socialization process within the family and among neighbourhood friends is important in shaping their body habitus. The study reveals that students coming to the PE class embodied different social practices and attitudes that reflect their family’s social and material conditions. In addition, family and peers influences on students’ PE participation intersected with other conditions such as institutional barriers (i.e. lack of funding, PE equipment, changing and showering rooms) and the PE teacher’s pedagogical approach. The study indicates that the more initial support students receive from their social networks in physical activity, the more they actively participate in the PE class. Students with high physical body skills have a high level of participation in PE while those with low physical body skills have a low level of participation, some then being marginalized. Hygiene is another issue that concerns some students in ways that prevents them from participation in PE. Surprisingly, the Saudi adult masculine identity associated with traditional clothing (thawb) is also a condition that influences student PE participation.

The main idea of this thesis is to deepen our understanding of the relationship between tax policy and heterogeneous capital. The first chapter revisits the question of whether preferential tax regimes are desirable in a context where some jurisdictions have leadership advantages in their choice of tax policy. It is argued that if regions or countries involved in tax competition act sequentially as Stackelberg competitors, they will prefer to limit the use of preferential tax policy. If firms located in small regions face higher mobility costs on average than those located in large regions, small regions want to ban preferential tax regimes while large regions will tend to support them. If jurisdictions are populated mainly by firms with low mobility costs, they will prefer preferential tax treatments. On the other hand, if they are populated mostly by firms with high mobility costs, small regions want to restrict preferential tax policies while large regions will favour them. The second chapter embraces the neoclassical theory of investment to model the rate of investment in physical and intangible capital. It uses data from the EU KLEMS database, the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and the Tax Foundation. It concludes that the equations for the rate of investment in physical and intangible capital are distinct. Corporate tax incentives affect the rates of investment in physical and intangible capital, but differently. The higher rate of depreciation of intangible capital relative to physical capital seems to explain the increasing ratio of investment in intangible to physical capital. The third chapter examines heterogeneity by type of capital within the relationship between capital and its user cost, for five types of physical capital asset and two types of intangible capital asset. The dataset is almost similar to that of chapter two. The results show that, in the short-run dynamics, both the dynamic fixed-effects and GMM results seem to agree on the role of changes in the user cost of capital on the accumulation of the stock of capital. Overall, dynamic fixed-effects estimation seems to yield results that are more consistent with the theoretical conclusions on investment behaviour and empirical results for physical capital already established in the literature.

This bachelor thesis aims to uncover the determinants of the economic growth in Mexico with an exogenous growth model. The study is based in an Augmented Solow Model em-ployed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil in "A contribution to the Empirics of the Economic Growth" (1992). The model uses annual data of Mexico from 1960-2007 and the regressions and tests are developed in the econometric package Stata 10 for eight different periods. The thesis not only uses the Effective Labour and Physical Capital as Inputs in the production Function, but also employs the variable of Human Capital as an economic determinant of growth in the production function. The results of the model correspond with the actual scenario in Mexico; more weight to the Effective Labour (76.34%) rather than to Human Capital (2.12%) or Physical Capital (21.54%) as determinants of growth.

<p> </p><p> </p><p>This bachelor thesis aims to uncover the determinants of the economic growth in Mexico with an exogenous growth model. The study is based in an Augmented Solow Model em-ployed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil in</p><p><em>"A contribution to the Empirics of the Economic Growth" </em>(1992). The model uses annual data of Mexico from 1960-2007 and the regressions and tests are developed in the econometric package Stata 10 for eight different periods. The thesis not only uses the Effective Labour and Physical Capital as Inputs in the production Function, but also employs the variable of Human Capital as an economic determinant of growth in the production function. The results of the model correspond with the actual scenario in Mexico; more weight to the Effective Labour (76.34%) rather than to Human Capital (2.12%) or Physical Capital (21.54%) as determinants of growth.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

This paper presents a theoretical growth model that accounts for technological interdependence among regions in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil world. The reasoning behind the theoretical work is that technological ideas cannot be fully appropriated by investors and these ideas may diffuse and increase the productivity of other firms. We link the diffusion of ideas to spatial proximity and allow for ideas to flow to nearby regional economies. Through the magic of solving for the reduced form of the theoretical model and the magic of spatial autoregressive processes, the simple dependence on a small number of neighbouring regions leads to a reduced form theoretical model and an associated empirical model where changes in a single region can potentially impact all other regions. This implies that conventional regression interpretations of the parameter estimates would be wrong. The proper way to interpret the model has to rely on matrices of partial derivatives of the dependent variable with respect to changes in the Mankiw-Romer-Weil variables, using scalar summary measures for reporting the estimates of the marginal impacts from the model. The summary impact measure estimates indicate that technological interdependence among European regions works through physical rather than human capital externalities.

Den nuvarande forskningen kring positiv kroppsuppfattning bland kvinnor är bristfällig. Kvinnors syn på sin egen kropp handlar snarare om att nedvärdera än att förhålla sig positivt till den. Den tidigare forskningen på ämnet har främst berört en negativ kroppsuppfattning samt sambandet mellan media och kroppsuppfattning. Viktig forskning för denna uppsats har varit Frisén (2014) och Kristina Holmqvist Gattarios (2013) studier. Forskningen har berört motiven bakom en positiv kroppsuppfattning, dessa har varit fokus på kroppens funktion snarare än utseendet. Syftet med denna studie är att försöka ta reda på hur unga kvinnor utvecklar en positiv kroppsuppfattning om sig själva. Denna studie är av kvalitativ karaktär där åtta intervjuer har utförts bland unga kvinnor i åldrarna 20-26 år. Teoretiska utgångspunkter som valts för arbetet är Roland Paulsens (2010) utveckling av Pierre Bourdieus (1979/2010) teori om kroppsligt kapital samt Fanny Ambjörnssons (2003) teori om normalisering och skapandet av en tjej/kvinna. Resultatet från denna studie har visat att de unga kvinnornas omgivning har spelat en avgörande roll för uppfattningen av en positiv kroppsbild, exempelvis relationer till pojkvän eller familj. / As women's perception of their own body focuses on devaluing it rather than responding positively to it, current research on positive body image among women today is scarce. Previous research on the topic has mostly examined a negative body image and the relationship between media and the body. Considerable research for this study has been done by Frisén (2014) and Christina Holmqvist Gattario (2013), their studies have discussed the motives behind a positive body image, which has proven to be a focus on the body's function rather than appearance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out how young women develop a positive body image. This study is qualitative in nature and consists of eight interviews conducted among young women aged 20 to 26 years. The theoretical framework selected for this essay is Roland Paulsens’ (2010) development of Pierre Bourdieus’ (1979/2010) theory of Physical capital and Fanny Ambjörnsons’ (2003) theory of Making of femininity. The results of this study show that relationships with a boyfriend or family, have played a crucial role for the perception of a positive body image.

The efficiency of physical capital accumulation plays a critical role for economic growth. This paper aims at examine if economic freedom promotes economic growth via physical capital accumulation. This is done by estimating a production function by replacing the inputs with institutional indices. The first input is GDP per capital growth rate which serve as a proxy for institutional aspects and the other input are the economic freedom indexes which will serve as proxies for physical capital accumulation. This is done by applying the augmented mean group (AMG) estimator that is designed for dealing with macro panel data analysis, including twenty developing countries where the economies have experienced a rapid growth, and the time period are between 1995 and 2017. The theoretical framework is based on the Solow growth model, institutional theory and marginal efficiency of capital (MEC). The results show that economic freedom promotes economic growth via physical capital accumulation where GDP per capital growth rate served as a proxy for institutional aspects and economic freedom indexes as proxies for physical capital accumulation. The results also show that the AMG estimator is the best fit for macro panel data analysis since it are designed for dealing with heterogeneity.

The study assess the roles played by cooperative societies’ savings and loans services on members’ economic condition, standard of living and in meeting participants financial needs in rural locations where there is no bank nor other formal financial providers. Using a combination of interview, focus group discussion and questionnaire techniques, the study covers the activities of cooperative societies located in rural communities and villages outside the state capital and local government headquarters where there is no electricity, water and tarred road in Ogun State, Nigeria. From its findings, this study identified and discussed potential areas for the improvement of cooperative societies that could be of benefit to rural finance providers and the cooperative members. The study is the first empirical investigation in Nigeria that focuses on the relevance of cooperative societies on members’ standard of living in rural communities and villages. The study shed light on how rural communities function – how their relationships develop, how individual esteem is increased, how interdependence grows, how hierarchies are maintained – and how this is facilitated in part by the loan-making of members promoted cooperatives. It has also provided more evidence on the importance of land ownership, and how this is enhanced when rural communities have access to cheap and affordable loans. It has also provided insights into the development of rural businesses, how complex they are, and how they require more input than the financing received through cooperative loans. The study breaks new ground in informal cooperative functioning, community development and rural finance research by providing a distinction between standard of living and quality of life variables in measuring the economic condition of rural dwellers, and the production of circle of social capital theory that the role of cooperatives to the members involve financial capital, physical capital and social capital which are interrelated. This helps to appropriately identify the roles of cooperative societies in rural finance to increase in household income, ownership of household assets and acquisition of enterprise assets. However, participation in the cooperative does not lead to enterprise profitability, while rural financial needs are more accessible from cooperatives than other sources.