Social capital, human capital and economic development: theoretical model and empirical analyses
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This thesis follows the literature on social capital. Specifically, this research is an exploration of the impact of social capital on socioeconomic outcomes such as education and economic growth. It is argued that social capital impacts economic growth. Lire la suite
Researchers have mainly concentrated on traditional types of capital (natural, physical and human) in explaining the process of economic growth and development. Yet, it is now widely recognized that social capital is the missing link in this process.
Researchers have mainly concentrated on traditional types of capital (natural, physical and human) in explaining the process of economic growth and development. Yet, it is now widely recognized that social capital is the missing link in this process.
Social capital, as conceived by its promoters is intrinsically relational and can only exist within a pattern of relationships. The emphasis placed on social capital focuses on the way in which the economic actors interact and organize themselves to achieve goals.
This thesis follows the literature on social capital. Specifically, this research is an exploration of the impact of social capital on socioeconomic outcomes such as education and economic growth. It is argued that, at the aggregate level, social capital impacts economic growth through its effect on human capital accumulation. Precisely, the interaction between social capital and human capital and their joint effects on economic growth is formalized in a multisector endogenous growth model. It is showed that, in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that social capital enhances productivity gains by playing the role of a timing belt driving the transmission and propagation of all productivity shocks throughout the society whatever the sectoral origin of the shock.
At the individual level, we investigated whether social capital is an independent variable that explains educational outcomes of children in developing countries. Fixed effects and instrumental variable models have been used to address concerns about heterogeneity and endogeneity. The results suggest that social capital in the family contributes significantly to improve children educational attainment. Furthermore, the positive effects of social capital on education are not short lived, they last for the long term.
The main contribution of this research is to provide a formal modelling of the important relationships between social capital human capital and economic growth. Another contribution is the extension of the empirical research on social capital effects on education in developing countries.
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- Éditeur
- Presses universitaires de Louvain
- Partie du titre
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Numéro 682
- Partie du titre
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Volume 682
- Auteur
- Youyou Baende Bofota,
- Collection
- Thèses de la Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication | n° 682.682
- Langue
- anglais
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences de la population et du développement > Economie du développement
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences économiques > Economie du développement
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences économiques > Economie internationale
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences économiques > Micro-économie
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences de la population et du développement
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales > Sciences économiques
- BISAC Subject Heading
- BUS000000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Code publique Onix
- 06 Professionnel et académique
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019 )
- 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES
- Description public visé
- Économistes, sociologues, études du développement, africanistes
- Date de première publication du titre
- 10 décembre 2012
- Subject Scheme Identifier Code
- Classification thématique Thema: Sciences politiques et théorie
- Type d'ouvrage
- Monographie
- Avec
- Bibliographie
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- Date de publication
- 01 janvier 2005
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-93034-482-9
- Ampleur
- Nombre de pages de contenu principal : 186
- Code interne
- 71177
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- 16 x 24 x 1,1 cm
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- 309 grammes
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- 17,30 €
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List of tables...................................................................................................6
List of figures..................................................................................................8
List of figures..................................................................................................8
List of abbreviations.......................................................................................9 Acknowledgements.......................................................................................11
Chapter 1. Introduction.............................................................................13
1.1. Introduction............................................................................................13
1.1.1. Water Framework Directive (WFD)................................15
1.1.2. Integrated modelling.........................................................17
1.2. Objectives..............................................................................................19
1.3. Outline of the methodology...................................................................19
1.4. Outline of the thesis...............................................................................21
Chapter 2. Study region and data.............................................................23
2.1 Description of the Dyle catchment.........................................................23
2.2. The Dyle catchment- administrative situation.......................................26
2.3. Available data sets for the Dyle catchment............................................28
2.3.1. River discharges...............................................................28
2.3.2. Weather data set...............................................................29
2.3.3. GIS data............................................................................30
2.4. The study sub-catchments......................................................................31
2.4.1.The Thyle catchment.........................................................31
2.4.2. The Nethen catchment......................................................31
Chapter 3. Hydrological models................................................................33
3.1. Introduction............................................................................................33
3.2. WFD – a modellers perspective.............................................................33
3.3. Hydrological modelling to support Integrated Water Resource Management.................................................................................................36
3.3.1. Hydrological model selection criteria..............................36
3.3.2. Classification of models used in hydrology.....................37
3.4. Model selection for Integrated Water Resource Management within the Belgian case study........................................................................................39
3.5. The Geographical Information Systems in hydrological models...........47
3.5.1. Coupling GIS to hydrological models..............................48
3.6. Model used for the Dyle application......................................................49
3.6.1. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)...............50
3.6.1.1. SWAT model – data preparation and parameterisation.................................................................50
3.6.1.1.1. SWAT model and GIS.......................................51
3.6.1.1.2. SWAT model data sets.......................................52
3.6.2. Meshed Hydrological Model - MHM..............................52
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3.6.3. Comparison between the SWAT model and the MHM...53
3.7. Conclusion.............................................................................................55
Chapter 4. Sensitivity of the SWAT model to the soil and land use data parameterisation: a case study in the Thyle catchment, Belgium..........57
4.1. Introduction............................................................................................57
4.2. Materials and methods...........................................................................58
4.2.1 Model description..............................................................58
4.2.2 The catchment area............................................................59
4.2.3.General input data.............................................................60
4.2.3.1. Soil parameterisation.............................................62
4.2.3.2. Modelling..............................................................63
4.2. 4 Model evaluation..............................................................64
4.2.4.1 Evaluation of the pre-processing............................64
4.2.4.2 Evaluation of the hydrological modelling..............65
4.3. Results and discussion...........................................................................67
4.3.1 Evaluation of the generic land use and soil map...............67
4.3.2 Evaluation of the hydrological modelling.........................73
4.4. Conclusion.............................................................................................77
Chapter 5. Storm basin management for a flooding event in an ungauged catchment...................................................................................79
5.1. Introduction............................................................................................79
5.2. Flooding- problems in the Nethen sub-catchment.................................80
5.3. Scenarios development..........................................................................82
5.4. Definition of the model evaluation data set...........................................83
5.5. Application of the SWAT model to the Nethen catchment...................84
5.6. Results....................................................................................................86
5.7. Discussion and conclusion.....................................................................88
Chapter 6. Deriving global change scenarios for hydrological modelling in the Dyle catchment.................................................................................91
6.1.Introduction.............................................................................................91
6.2. Future Scenario Construction................................................................91
6.2.1.Overview...........................................................................91
6.3. Climate change scenarios.......................................................................95
6.3.1 Climate change scenarios for the Dyle catchment............95
6.4. Land use change scenarios.....................................................................97
6.4.1. The ATEAM Land use change scenarios in the Dyle catchment....................................................................................97
6.5. Land use change downscaling method for the Dyle catchment...........101
6.5.1. Introduction....................................................................101
6.5.2. Material and Methods.....................................................103
6.5.2.1. Data preparation..................................................103
6.5.2.2. Logistic regression analysis.................................104
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6.5.2.3. Deriving the explanatory variables for the Dyle.107
6.5.3. Results............................................................................110
6.5.4. Discussion......................................................................114
6.6.Conclusions...........................................................................................117
Chapter 7. Impact of environmental change on the hydrology of the Dyle.............................................................................................................119
7.1. Introduction..........................................................................................119
7.2. Model parameterisation.......................................................................120
7.2.1.Land cover data set of the SWAT model........................120
7.2.2. Transfer of CSTV parameterisation to the Dyle............123
7.3. Modelling.............................................................................................125
7.4. Results..................................................................................................126
7.5. Discussion............................................................................................130
7.6. Conclusions..........................................................................................132
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Perspectives...............................................135
8.1.Conclusions...........................................................................................135
8.2. Perspectives.........................................................................................140
8.3. Recommendations................................................................................142 References...................................................................................................143
Web pages...................................................................................................154
Annex I.......................................................................................................155
Annex II......................................................................................................157
Annex III.....................................................................................................169
Annex IV....................................................................................................174
Annex V......................................................................................................177
Annex VI....................................................................................................179