Globalisation and regionalisation

Globalisation, Regionalisation and Behavioural Responses of Land Use Agents

The global land system is under intense pressure from human demands for a range of different services. Economic theory suggests that globalised free trade is the most efficient way of handling these demands, allowing maximum productivity and specialisation of supply. However, political responses are often protectionist in nature, designed to ensure continuity of land uses and the regional produ...

Regionalisation of Rainfall-Runoff Models

A new approach to regionalisation for prediction of flow characteristics in ungauged catchments is presented. If flows in ungauged catchments are to be predicted using calibrated rainfall-runoff models, regional relationships between the parameters of such models and catchment attributes must be determined. This is only possible with parsimonious models (fewer than about 7 parameters), and even...

The Mankiw-Romer-Weil growth model and the valuation of human capital.¤ T.Huw Edwards Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation

This note examines the measure of human capital implicit in Mankiw, Romer and Weil’s 1992 paper on ’A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth’. It is argued that MRW’s methodology fails to take account of cross-country di¤erences in the costs of acquiring human capital, and so implies an excessive di¤erence in human capital between advanced countries and developing countries, where acqu...

AIDS and globalisation.

Globalisation and corruption

When a country interacts with foreign countries, it exposes itself to foreign culture and behaviour. This exposure could in‡uence the domestic culture through imitation or adaptation in the same way as individuals tend to be in‡uenced in their behaviour by the groups that they frequent. This could carry over to business culture in general and the corruption culture speci…cally. Therefore, the m...