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| Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba. |
| Since the abolition of its Apartheid regime in 1994, South Africa has launched a massive program of education, which has been financed through resources representing on average 21% of the national budget or 7% of GDP. Today, the GDP share of public spending on education is 1.3 times the average of industrialized countries (5.4%) and almost twice that of developing countries (3.9%). In this paper, we simulate fiscal policy experiments to analyze the growth and welfare effects of a shift in the allocation of government expenditures between public spending on education and transfers as well as those of a change in the tax rate in a model of endogenous growth with human capital accumulation for the South African economy. The results of simulations demonstrate... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Fiscal Policy; Government Expenditures and Education; Growth Model; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; E62; H52; O41. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6431 |
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| Thomas, Yoann; Garen, Pierre; Pouvreau, Stephane. |
| We applied, for the first time, a dynamic energy budget (DEB) growth model to the larval phase in the pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera var. cumingii (Linnaeus, 1758) to evaluate the impact of spatio-temporal variation in the atoll lagoon environment on its capacity for development. The specific parameters of the model, which represent ingestion, temperature effect and the relationship between length and biovolume of the larvae, were determined from experiments or taken from the literature. The interpretation of the values of these parameters allowed us to identify the underlying adaptive character trait: P. margaritifera larvae have a good capacity to exploit low food concentrations and a narrow range of thermal tolerance restricted to hydrobiological... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Growth Model; Dynamic Energy Budget; Larva; Pinctada Margaritifera; Atoll Lagoon. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00048/15919/13346.pdf |
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