extended abstract 1. introduction the concept of social capital is one of the most important concepts during two decades in various fields, especially in the field of organization. social capital means links and communication among members of a network, providing essential social support and energy to facilitate actions through creating norms and mutual trust. some scholars of social and behavi...

This paper examines e¢ cient paths of trade liberalization in a symmetric two country model where countries choose a (cooperative) trade agreement that maximizes national welfare, subject to the constraint that capital initially located in the import-competing sector receive some compensation for losses from liberalization. If lump sum transfers are available to compensate capital owners, free ...

This paper deals with the problem of tackling the adverse effect of output growth on environmental quality. For this purpose we use an intermediate sector that builds ‘putty-practically-clay’ capital consisting of an energy-raw capital amalgam used for final goods production. The putty-practically-clay model is a strongly simplified version of a full putty-clay model, that mimics all the releva...

This note reviews the microfinance sector in Ghana within the context of its potential for growth and development. The paper argues that microfinance, when properly harnessed can make significant contributions through several channels. Microfinance can promote higher investment leading to economic empowerment, which in turn promotes confidence and self-esteem, particularly for the vulnerable. I...

A variety of foreign-led economies has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineties. This paper explains the emergence of the competition state in the region and analyzes its political support and institutional underpinning. While the structural power of transnational capital and integration into the European regulatory framework had major roles in steering the state into the comp...

Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's iron and steel sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. We derive both growth accounting and econometric estimates of pro...

We consider a two-sector economy with Cobb-Douglas technologies, laboraugmenting global external effects and increasing social returns. We prove the existence of a normalized balanced growth path and we give conditions for the occurrence of sunspot fluctuations that are compatible with both types of capital intensity configuration at the private level provided the elasticity of intertemporal su...

BACKGROUND Social capital is hypothesized to be relevant to health promotion, and the association between community social capital and cigarette smoking has been examined. Individual-level social capital has been found to be associated with smoking cessation, but evidence remains sparse on the contextual effect of social capital and smoking. Further, evidence remains sparse on the association b...

in this paper, the energy demand of transport sector from 1385 to 1400 is forecasted based on fuzzy linear regression (flr) approach considering economic and social indicators. in order to analyze the influence of economic and social indicators on energy demand of transport sector, gross domestic product (gdp), population and the total number of vehicles in 1372-1384 were regarded. in this rese...