Education : an investment or a liability? : an economic analysis of education and its role in the development of underdeveloped countries, with special reference to the concept of human capital
- Authors: Bates, Terrence
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries , Human capital
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Honours , BCom
- Identifier: vital:1110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013466
- Description: From Introduction: Education, in the broadest sense of the term, is as old as man himself, but the attention devoted to it has fluctuated to extremities over time. The "Economics of Education", as a separate study, has suffered the same cyclical life, but has in recent years experienced a prolonged revival of interest, eapecially with regard to the concept of "Human Capital".
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- Date Issued: 1970
Some aspects of the Franco-German economic relations between the two world wars
- Authors: Wolf, Hans J
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Economic history -- 1918-1945 , France -- Economic conditions -- 20th century , Germany -- Economic conditions -- 20th century , France -- Foreign relations -- Germany , Germany -- Foreign relations -- France
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1067 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007687
- Description: From Preface: In this thesis I have aimed at covering a field in Economic History where not many suitable publications are available in English. During the interwar period, the maintenance of peace and harmonious international relations was directly dependent on a reconciliation of the conflicting interests between France and Germany. In studying the economic implications of the Franco-German antagonism, I have tried to throw light upon the crucial role which this relationship played. The Appendix offers a quantitative survey of economic conditions in the two countries and of the relevant production and exchange problems. To assist the reader who is not completely familiar with this period, a brief summary of the relevant conferences, agreements and treaties is also offered in the Appendix, as well as some short biographical notes. I would like to make it clear, however, that this thesis is neither supposed to be a paraphrase of the Appendix, nor a mere treatise on the commercial relations between the two countries concerned. I aimed rather at revealing the forces behind the events and at illustrating how economic problems became quite often subject to political and military considerations. When trying to attain some understanding of Franco-German relations, it seems advisable to look not only at the interbellum period, but in the first instance to become aware of the currents of history which finally led to the two disastrous World Wars.
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- Date Issued: 1970
The Cape Midlands: its demography (1911-1960) and regional income (1954/55-1959/60)
- Authors: Banach, John A
- Date: 1970 , 2013-12-09
- Subjects: Demography , Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Population , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Economic conditions , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Population
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: vital:1062 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007585 , Demography , Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Population , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Economic conditions , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Population
- Description: The area covered in this survey of the Cape Midlands is roughly that portion of the Eastern Cape Province which looks to Port Elizabeth as its principal industrial and market centre where the density of the population is the closest. It lies generally within the geographical region described by Professor J.V.L. Rennie as the Eastern Province Midlands Area. "The Midlands area appears to include all that part of the Eastern Province lying west of the Great Fish and Tark rivers and at least as far inland as the Great Escarpment. The term (Cape Midlands) is commonly applied to local organisations in the larger inland centres of Graaff-Reinet and Port Elizabeth interests. Intro. p.1-2
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- Date Issued: 1970