The problem of informal settlement is well established in many urban areas of South Africa and in many other developing countries. Efforts to upgrade urban informal settlements have largely failed due to lack of effective participation in the planning processes which are conventionally driven by professional land use planners. This study was carried with the objectives to determine the causes of failure of conventional land use planning in upgrading informal settlements and the resulting spatial implications. There also sought to investigate current best practices of in-situ upgrading of informal settlements and to use these in formulating a proposed approach that would include community-driven planning into the local integrated development planning. In a case study of the Hanipark Informal Settlement in Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Free State Province key informants identified from the various stakeholders involved in the upgrade process were interviewed in order to establish the causes of failure of the planning processes. Ortho-rectified imagery of 2000 and 2003 were also analysed to establish the spatial trends of the informal settlement during the informal settlement upgrade of the study area. The results showed that the in-situ upgrade of the Hanipark Informal Settlement was largely driven by the Matjhabeng Local Municipality planners using the conventional technical approach with minimum participation of the beneficiary informal settlement dwellers. It was revealed that while the upgrade planning was in progress, new informal dwellers continued to settle. Over a three-year period between 2000 and 2003, the number of informal settlement dwellers increased by more than 1,000 households, increasing settlement density and expanding the area extent of the informal settlement by more than 10 ha. The study results suggest that an adaptation of the current practices centred on the UN_HABITAT procedure could be more successful in informal settlement upgrading. A three-phase approach is proposed to include as the first phase, the formation of a Stakeholders Forum which conducts a land audit, identifies policy instruments and accessible resources and establishes a partnership with the private sector; as the second phase, a land zoning procedure and the establishing of a suitable land tenure framework and carrying out detailed planning and implementation as the third phase. / Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

The formulation of land-use programs fostering the social development of a community is the basic aim of the present work. The San Tiburcio region, located in northern Mexico, provides the background for the design of specific programs as well as a vehicle to present and illustrate the proposed procedure. The advocated program design procedure is made up of four distinct stages; value structuring, project screening, program delineation, and program selection. At each stage a specific technique is proposed in order to achieve the particular output sought. The value structuring phase strives to achieve a characterization of the objective structure, as advocated by a group, and the identification of objective measures useful in the decision making stage. Q-analysis is used to study the structure of the objectives as implied by a given relation among these objectives. The objective structure for the San Tiburcio region is assessed and studied in the context of the proposed value structuring activities. Based upon previous research, a set of land-use projects is formulated by a multidisciplinary team and submitted as potential candidates to integrate a program for the San Tiburcio region. Related to this set of land-use projects is another set of infrastructural and industrial projects proposed by various governmental agencies. A mixed-integer linear multiobjective programming (MILMOP) model is used to handle the determination of specific program profiles. Due to computational and data limitations, a prior screening of alternatives is undertaken, using a knapsack-type model. By considering several types of objectives and levels of resources, a classification of projects is achieved. Two plausible screening criteria are developed to deal with the San Tiburcio problem. The set of screened projects is used as the starting basis of the program delineation stage. A series of program profiles is generated by obtaining various half-compromise solutions of the MILMOP model. Each half-compromise solution is obtained when a particular set of weights is used for the various objective functions. The selection of a given program is undertaken within the context of a multiattribute decision problem. To this end, a technique based on polyhedral dynamics is developed and used to produce a ranking of programs. A series of sensitivity runs are conducted to conclude that only two programs of the five considered are ranked consistently higher than the rest.

The principle aim of this thesis is to construct a consumption function for Turkey for policy analysis using the annual State Planning Organisation (SPO) time-series data. This study commences from 1962 and extends until the end of 1994, when a financial crisis occurred in Turkey. It attempts to analyse not only the decline in the private savings rate during the first half of the 1980s, but also the significant rise from 1986 onwards. The thesis starts with an introduction which explodes the main research objectives, considers the existing consumption theories and extentions, records the main data features to be explained, briefly overviews the modelling strategy and discusses the basic considerations of the research and gives the structure of thesis. A literature survey on the theory of consumption is given in Chapter 2. The LifeCycle/ Permanent-Income hypothesis is considered as central to the two mainstream approach. : the Euler approach and the solved-out approach. These approaches are further extended by considering uncertainty and precautionary saving, credit restrictions, saving and leisure. habit or costs of adjustments and the durability of goods, the role of assets and asset prices. financial liberalisation and demographic factors. Finally, comparisons between the two approaches arc made in the conclusion of that chapter. Theory can deliver concepts with permanent relationships in economics, but it should be supported by empirical findings, since theory alone is insufficient to determine the actual economic relationship. Hence, Chapter 3 focuses on theoretical and appl ied modelling issues to construct a theory-consistent, congruent and encompassing consumption function. Congruency implies that the empirical model matches the available evidence in al l measured attributes (i.e., it is consistent with the theory from which it was derived, has unexplained components that arc innovations against available information, has basic parameters that are constant, is data admissible, and where any conditioning variables are weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest). Encompassing denotes that the model of interest can account for the result of rival models of the same phenomena. I also define structure as the set of invariant features of the economic mechanism. A parameter can be structural only if it is invariant for an extension of the sample period (constant), is invariant with respect to changes elsewhere in the economy (regime shifts), and is invariant over extensions of the information set (adding more variables). Chapter 4 examines the small-sample properties of the statistical methods used by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The informativeness of the data is investigated in an unrestricted Vector Auto-regression (VAR) with small-samples of noisy data combined with a high real growth rate and nominal inflation. This is to see how the relative drift dominates in explaining the informativeness of the data. The Monte results are summarised by using response surfaces to relate the biases to sample size. The ratio of standard deviations to standard errors in each equation is also analysed. The strong impacts of the system error variances in these response surfaces indicate the importance of high variances in VA Rs. Furthermore, I found noise, and a function of the signal to noise ratio. and cross-equation correlation had a large impact, but less effect from the relative drift. Chapter 5 presents an overview of the Turkish Economy, particularly during the sample period. by pointing out the lessons to be drawn from the stabilisation experiments and their effect on the private sector saving decision in Turkey. The aim of Chapter 6 is to get nominal housing wealth and housing price data from the available data, such as the nominal private disposable income. nominal private investment in the housing sector and the consumer price index, since housing wealth is claimed to be a major determinant of private savings in Turkey. Chapter 7 aims to reveal the problems of Turkish data by analysing the history of the Turkish a1ional Accounts to construct a data-base for estimating a consumption function for Turkey. GDP by expenditure is constructed from five different sources. Turkish accounting residuals are allocated by applying the linear regression approach. The results show that GDP-by-output is more reliable than the GDP-by-expenditure measure for Turkey. Chapter 8 is devoted to the time series modelling and evidence. Previous findings on consumption for Turkey have been formulated using conventional econometric techniques with a static estimation methodology within the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH). I adopted the equilibrium correction model (ECM) solved-out consumption function approach and tried to incorporate the effects of age. precautionary behaviour in the case of uncertainty, credit constraints, habits or costs of adjustments. and the durability of goods for developing belier understanding of private sector savings behaviour in Turkey. The modelling is based on the dynamic econometric methodology that involves the estimation of a general unrestricted model (GUM). a co-integration and long-run analysis, and the simplification of the GUM to a parsimonious dynamic model that is deduced by applying a sequential testing procedure. The final model is congruent: It matches the available evidence in all measured attributes and forecasts well, has white noise errors and constant parameters, and encompasses the VAR model equation as well as other specifications in previous models. Moreover, the model has a structural interpretation. The results of the final model reveal strong positive effects of the real interest rate. inflation and inflation uncertainty, a strong negative effect of population aged 15-44, a positive effect after one lag period of the change in the average propensity to consume. which represents the effects of expectations, habits or adjustment costs, in addition to the significant effect of the inverse of per capita Private Disposable Income and the change in housing wealth to income ra1io on the private average propensity to consume in Turkey. These findings offer an explana1ion for the salient features of the Turkish consumption pattern observed from 1he lime series data. These results also provide some policy implications such that inOation control should be strengthened and improved for consumption stabilisation. Furthermore. interest rate policy also has an important role to play in the savings process in Turkey. The research on small-sample properties of 1hc statistical methods by means of Monte Carlo Simulations strengthens the results of the empirical model. These. confirm the poor determination of intercepts in I(I) VARs, and the corresponding advantages of an equilibrium correction model formulation. Furthermore. the insignificance the of irrelevant dynamics should encourage model builders to use a dynamic econometric methodology to develop parsimonious models, such as used for building a consumption model for Turkey in this thesis.

O Brasil possui posição privilegiada diante da Crise dos Alimentos: pode se tornar o maior exportador agrícola mundial, é reconhecido por suas políticas de Segurança Alimentar e possui vantagens estratégicas em termos de matriz energética. No entanto, essa posição é ameaçada por um ponto de estrangulamento no setor de fertilizantes. A contribuição do Direito para a superação deste gargalo é o tema desta tese. Defende-se que esse quadro decorre, em parte, da desorganização das ferramentas de jurídicas, que, ao longo da história, contribuíram positivamente para o desenvolvimento do setor. A reversão desse gargalo, portanto, exige a reorganização do ambiente institucional da indústria, por meio de ferramentas jurídicas de planejamento (III Plano Nacional de Fertilizantes), financiamento (investimento de Capital de Risco para o desenvolvimento de inovações tecnológicas sustentáveis) e regulação (reforma da legislação mineral). Assim, o Direito Econômico pode informar uma intervenção indutiva transformadora/pró-ativa, contribuindo para a superação do ponto de estrangulamento no setor de fertilizantes e para que o país aproveite as oportunidades geradas pela Crise dos Alimentos. / Brazil is in a leading position in the light of the Food Crisis: it may become the largest agricultural exporter in the world, is well renowned for its Food Safety policies, and also has strategic advantages in terms of its energy matrix. However, this position is now in jeopardy, due to a bottleneck in the fertilizer area. The contribution of Law to overcome this bottleneck is the theme addressed in this thesis. This work defends the idea that this situation is, in part, a result of the disorganization of the judicial tools that, throughout the countrys history, have made a positive contribution to the development of this segment. Hence, the reversal of this bottleneck situation may not do without a reorganization of the institutional environment, through judicial tools for planning (the 3rd National Fertilizer Plan), financing (investment of venture capital for the development of sustainable technological innovations) and also regulation (a rethink of legislation regarding minerals). In this way, Economic Law can inform a transforming or proactive inductive intervention, thereby helping towards the overcoming of the bottleneck in the fertilizer segment and also so that the country may take advantage of the opportunities generated by the Food Crisis.

The issue of development has generally been perceived as an economic and technical process with little or no relevance to political issues. In contrast to this general understanding, this study aims to underline that development is a complex and primarily a political process. In support of this argument, the study overviews historically the changing meanings as well as ideologies of development since the 19th century with a particular focus on the Turkish case. By doing so, it attempts to recall the idea of development primarily as a political process. In general terms, dominant paradigms of development have also been set by power and become leverage for political and economic dominance in history. In this sense, different development paradigms in history need also to be understood as political phenomena rather than simply philosophical products.

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O Brasil possui posição privilegiada diante da Crise dos Alimentos: pode se tornar o maior exportador agrícola mundial, é reconhecido por suas políticas de Segurança Alimentar e possui vantagens estratégicas em termos de matriz energética. No entanto, essa posição é ameaçada por um ponto de estrangulamento no setor de fertilizantes. A contribuição do Direito para a superação deste gargalo é o tema desta tese. Defende-se que esse quadro decorre, em parte, da desorganização das ferramentas de jurídicas, que, ao longo da história, contribuíram positivamente para o desenvolvimento do setor. A reversão desse gargalo, portanto, exige a reorganização do ambiente institucional da indústria, por meio de ferramentas jurídicas de planejamento (III Plano Nacional de Fertilizantes), financiamento (investimento de Capital de Risco para o desenvolvimento de inovações tecnológicas sustentáveis) e regulação (reforma da legislação mineral). Assim, o Direito Econômico pode informar uma intervenção indutiva transformadora/pró-ativa, contribuindo para a superação do ponto de estrangulamento no setor de fertilizantes e para que o país aproveite as oportunidades geradas pela Crise dos Alimentos. / Brazil is in a leading position in the light of the Food Crisis: it may become the largest agricultural exporter in the world, is well renowned for its Food Safety policies, and also has strategic advantages in terms of its energy matrix. However, this position is now in jeopardy, due to a bottleneck in the fertilizer area. The contribution of Law to overcome this bottleneck is the theme addressed in this thesis. This work defends the idea that this situation is, in part, a result of the disorganization of the judicial tools that, throughout the countrys history, have made a positive contribution to the development of this segment. Hence, the reversal of this bottleneck situation may not do without a reorganization of the institutional environment, through judicial tools for planning (the 3rd National Fertilizer Plan), financing (investment of venture capital for the development of sustainable technological innovations) and also regulation (a rethink of legislation regarding minerals). In this way, Economic Law can inform a transforming or proactive inductive intervention, thereby helping towards the overcoming of the bottleneck in the fertilizer segment and also so that the country may take advantage of the opportunities generated by the Food Crisis.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:27:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielRD_DISSERT.pdf: 1700556 bytes, checksum: 59145b9f9efba8aa774cb4c0abba412b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-08 / The progress of a nation is closely linked to the energy supply that it has to develop its economic capabilities. The dependence of contemporary society for energy requires the continued expansion of the use of renewable energy, and implies coordinated action of the Democratic State in the delimitation of the best ways to make full use of energy. In periods of rapid development, countries need an increment of energy supplies superior to those of periods of regular economic growth. Energy demand generated by the condition of Brazil as an emerging country reveals the need for orderly expansion of energy supply. In reverse, lack of energy planning effectively paralyzes a country and generates incalculable losses in national socioeconomic development. The Brazilian Constitution abandoned the notion of development tied to the simple increase in the gross domestic product. The respect for the environment, sovereignty, national development, and especially the constant and growing supply of energy, promotes the advancement of national economic agents, and quenches the simple accounting increase in energy supply. Constitutional principles condition the rational use of energy potentials, in ensuring adequate supply of energy for the entire national territory. The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy, through its agencies, government offices and companies, establishes and formulates policies and guidelines for energy in Brazil, playing an important role in national energy planning. National development is enhanced by the good performance of the state agencies responsible for planning the energy sector / O progresso de uma na??o est? intimamente ligado ? oferta energ?tica que essa disp?e para o desenvolvimento de suas capacidades econ?micas. A depend?ncia da sociedade contempor?nea por energia obriga a expans?o cont?nua da utiliza??o das fontes energ?ticas, e pressup?e uma a??o coordenada do Estado na delimita??o democr?tica dos melhores caminhos para a plena utiliza??o da matriz energ?tica. Em per?odos de desenvolvimento acelerado, os pa?ses necessitam de um incremento da oferta energ?tica superior aos per?odos de crescimento econ?mico regular. A demanda energ?tica gerada pela condi??o brasileira de pa?s emergente revela a necessidade da expans?o ordenada da oferta energ?tica. De modo inverso, a falta de planejamento energ?tico efetivamente paralisa um pa?s e gera preju?zos incalcul?veis no desenvolvimento socioecon?mico nacional. A Constitui??o Cidad? abandonou a no??o de desenvolvimento atrelada ao simples incremento do produto interno bruto. O respeito ao meio ambiente, ? soberania, ao desenvolvimento nacional, e especialmente a oferta constante e crescente de energia, favorece o progresso dos agentes econ?micos nacionais, e debela o simples incremento cont?bil na expans?o da oferta energ?tica. A principiologia constitucional condiciona a utiliza??o racional das potencialidades energ?ticas, na garantia do adequado suprimento para todo o territ?rio nacional. ? o Minist?rio das Minas e Energia, por meio de suas reparti??es, autarquias, empresas e ag?ncias, que estabelece e formula as pol?ticas e diretrizes energ?ticas do Brasil, tendo papel de destaque no planejamento energ?tico nacional. O desenvolvimento nacional ? potencializado pela boa atua??o dos ?rg?os estatais respons?veis pelo planejamento do setor energ?tico

China and Russia – two giants in the group of emerging markets – continue to attract wide attention as evolving science and technological superpowers. However, both countries demonstrate mixed success in innovation development and are struggling to overcome the legacies of the former state planning system and accelerate their transition to effective national innovation systems. This study employs a number of theoretical constructs and evidence sources to evaluate the existing path dependencies and compare the achievements of China and Russia in fostering development and effective systems of innovation and governance. A detailed analysis of the state planning legacies is provided together with a study of innovation system transformation and the role of public policy in (re)building national innovation capabilities in China and Russia. The system-evolutionary approach is applied to provide a detailed assessment of the strategic effort undertaken by the governments of both countries. Several government failures and path dependencies seem to prevent the nations from implementing a more effective reform. Yet, there are a number of complementarities and opportunities for mutual learning where both countries can benefit from closer collaboration. The challenges of turning universities into research institutions, increasing productivity of state-owned enterprises, constructing effective science parks, promoting indigenous innovation, ensuring more even distribution of innovation development across regions, turning ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain gain’, and improving intellectual property rights protection are common in Russia and China. As a lens through which to identify and assess innovation systems transformation, the thesis examines emerging nanotechnology development in China and Russia. Nanotechnology is a new science and technology area where policies seem to be independent of many system weaknesses and contribute to breaking existing development lock-ins due to its explorative nature and assumed transformative capacity. Yet, a number of path dependencies do exist in this area but seem to play a marginal role in its progression. An early assessment is provided of nanotechnology impacts on broader socioeconomic development of China and Russia in six key areas: institutional development, knowledge flows, and network efficiency; research and education capabilities; industrial and enterprise growth; cluster and network development; regional spread; and product innovation.The conclusion summarizes the main findings, revisits the major research questions, links the analysis to the conceptual framework, and offers a number of policy recommendations that seem relevant to both Russia and China with a need to increase the transparency of innovation policy, improve the regulation for innovation process, and promote growth of the private sector to ensure effective technology transfer.Results from this study have been reported in various forms in the author’s articles published in Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Review of Policy Research, International Journal of Economics and Business Research, and European Journal of Development Research as well as presented at a number of international conferences (see Appendix).

Este trabalho estuda a economia política do desenvolvimento regional no Rio Grande do Sul a partir da Constituição de 1988, para responder à seguinte pergunta: nas atuais condições estruturais, quais as possibilidades de retomarmos o desenvolvimento regional equilibrado, com suporte do Estado e maior dinâmica endógena? Com o objetivo de construir uma análise teórica comprometida com a ação, partimos da seguinte hipótese: a heterogeneidade estrutural da economia gaúcha, parcialmente inserida no atual padrão internacional de acumulação, corresponde a uma heterogeneidade político-institucional na qual diferentes circuitos de poder, que não se comunicam no interior do Estado, dispersam os escassos recursos sem uma estratégia de desenvolvimento integradora do território, o que vem reproduzindo as desigualdades regionais internas. Chamamos essa combinação de heterogeneidade estrutural e institucional de “heterogeneidade estruturante” da economia política estadual. O marco teórico escolhido é baseado no “possibilismo” de Hirschman, em sua análise sobre a indução pública da habilidade para o investimento, que tratamos analogamente nos termos institucionais de Peter Evans, avaliando as capacidades estatais a partir do weberianismo da burocracia e do enraizamento do Estado. Analisando os condicionantes sistêmicos e as dinâmicas internas da economia política estadual, concluímos que o planejamento regional para a redução de desigualdades não obtém resultados expressivos por encontrar-se aprisionado no circuito orçamentário do Estado, onde uma burocracia fraca e pouco prestigiada é suplantada pelas decisões políticas, apesar dos esforços crescentes de reflexão e aprofundamento democrático nesse circuito. Por outro lado, argumentamos que as ações desenvolvimentistas existentes são do tipo passivo e subordinado ao circuito do grande capital, resumindo-se à atração de investimentos multinacionais em que o desequilíbrio territorial tem pouca ou nenhuma influência nas decisões de alocação. Por fim, a maior capacidade estatal encontra-se no circuito tecnocrático, cujo envolvimento com os objetivos estratégicos e vontades sociais é quase nulo, caracterizando uma espécie de despotismo-racional. / This work offers an approach to the political economy of regional development in the Rio Grande do Sul state after the 1988 Constitution. It seeks to answer the following question: in the structural conditions observed, is it possible to return to a balanced regional development, with state support and increased endogenous dynamics? In order to build a theoretical analysis committed to policy planning and action, we start from the following hypothesis: the structural heterogeneity of the regional economy of Rio Grande do Sul, partially inserted in the current international pattern of accumulation, corresponds to a political-institutional heterogeneity in which different power circuits work independently to scatter the scarce resources without an integrated development strategy for the territory. We named this combination of structural and institutional heterogeneity as the “structuring heterogeneity” of the political economy of the subnational state. The chosen theoretical framework is based on Hirschman’s "possibilism" and his analysis of the public induced ability for investment. We argued that Peter Evans’ approach for the Embedded Autonomy is a contemporary analogous formulation, using it to assess the developmentalism capacities through the bureaucratic level in a “weberian” scale and social embeddedness of the state. Analyzing the systemic constraints and the internal dynamics of the political economy of Rio Grande do Sul, we conclude that, in fact, the regional planning for the reduction of inequalities do not get significant results because it is trapped in the budgetary circuit, where a weak bureaucracy, with no prestige, is surpassed by political decisions, despite the increasing planning efforts and democratic deepening in the last few years. On the other hand, we argue that the developmental actions are passive and subordinated to the big capital circuit, where the main policies focus on the attraction of multinational investments and have little consideration for the regional imbalances entailed. Finally, the largest state capacity is within the technocratic circuit, which it not involved with the strategic objectives and social needs, a behavior we called rational-despotism.