For many years, physical asset indicators were the main evidence of an organization’s successful performance. However, the situation has changed after information technology revolution in the knowledge-based economy. Since 1980’s business performance has not been limited only to physical assets instead intellectual capital are increasingly playing a major role in business performance. In this p...

Social capital includes volume and quality of relations between human beings, which can facilitate cooperation between them. Based on numerous studies about development in the different world countries from 1988, it has been specified that social capital has an important role on development and progress of societies (1). For better understanding of social capital and its effects on society heal...

In this article we adopt a Bourdieu-based approach to study social inequalities in perceptions of mental and physical health. Most research takes into account the impact of economic or social capital on health inequalities. Bourdieu, however, distinguishes between three forms of capital that can determine peoples' social position: economic, social and cultural capital. Health research examining...

BACKGROUND The physical and social environments at schools are related to students' moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels. The purpose of this study was to explore the interactive effects of the school physical environment and school social capital on the MVPA of students while at school. METHODS Data from 18,875 grade 6-10 students from 331 schools who participated in the 2009...

Individuals differ in both inherited and acquired abilities, but only the latter differ among countries and time periods. Human capital analysis deals with acquired capabilities which are developed through formal and informal education at school and at home, and through training, experience, and mobility in the labor market. Just as accumulation of personal human capital produces individual eco...

In developing countries, the experiences of government-led development through heavy loans and grants from international donors have added to records of failure because of centralized system of plan formulation and its implementation through complex bureaucratic structure of government agencies. Realizing the inevitability of active participation of the local communities, the international dono...

Robert E. Lucas (1990) famously asked, “Why Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?” If there exist aggregate production functions representing approximately the same technology across countries, then the vastly higher output per worker in richer countries implies that capital per worker must be much higher in these countries, and diminishing returns implies a much lower rate of retur...

The Brundtland Report suggested that there are close causal links between environmental change and poverty. However, the empirical evidence of the effects of poverty on the use made of environmental assets or natural capital is ambiguous. This paper focuses on the relation between poverty and the relative importance of natural and produced capital. Poverty affects stocks of natural and produced...

We introduce social capital accumulation into a neoclassical model, showing how it differs from physical and human capital accumulation. We take the view that social capital is crucial to the enjoyment of socially provided goods and that it is mainly accumulated by means of participation to social activities. Under-investment in social capital may lead a growing economy to fall into a social po...