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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Comparative/International"”.
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Local government accounting in Portugal in comparative-international perspective
… of Portuguese local government accounting in comparative-international perspective, in comparison with the United Kingdom. In the process, this shows that, despite the similarities in the form and content of the reports produced, differences still remain as to their aims and purposes.
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A comparative international review of power sector reform and its impact on access to electricity by poor communities
Since the early 1980's, a number of countries have been undertaking power sector reform. Very often the drivers for change included the need to reduce reliance on public finances and to obtain foreign capital, either to service loans, or for investing in new capacity. Latin American countries were …
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Using Social Network Analysis to Investigate Potential Bias in Editorial Peer Review in Core Journals of Comparative/International Education
… system within the context of the field of comparative and international education. Assuming the role as “Guardian of Science” and “social status judge” (Zuckerman & Merton, 1971), peer-review, the quality control system of science, directly affects the growth of science, scientists' …
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How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform
… to assess the likely future of Shanghai from a comparative international perspective. This study concludes with a discussion of the potential for reform and implications of China’s success or failure internationally through the scope of Andrew Nathan’s theory of authoritarian resilience.
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Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia
This dissertation contains an international examination of infrastructure planning in context, which applies new institutional economics and transaction costs theory for comparative international study, collecting exemplary social infrastructure practices across the global north and south, and …
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Incentives in the classroom: performance-based compensation implementation and impact in high performing schools in Shanghai, China
… countries that lead in the world economy and in comparative international assessments of student achievement. Longstanding and contemporary debates in educational policy and research question the potential of this incentivist policy to improve teaching. Some scholars warn that decades of …
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Fiscal and regulatory state policy for private schools in South Africa : (a policy options analysis)
… schools in South Africa in combination with a comparative international perspective, a summary of arguments in the literature for and against private schools, and principles identified by a recent (non-governmental) policy investigation into education in South Africa (NEPI) as encapsulating the …
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The Meaning of Success: Young Women and High Academic Achievement in Rapidly Developed Areas. A Comparative Study of Contemporary Rural Vermont, USA and Leinster, Ireland
This thesis is an in-depth, comparative international study on young women’s high academic achievement in rural Leinster (Ireland) and Vermont (USA). The research analyses how academic achievement is conceptualised as a particular form of cultural and personal capital between the two geographic …
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The Map and The Territory: Russian Social Media Networks and Society
… technologies. I propose a framework for comparative international analysis that leverages three interconnected elements – history, network structure and media ecology. On the basis of these three elements, this dissertation examines Russia’s social media ecology and its relationship to …
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The taxpayer's right to finality – a critical analysis of legislation and practice in South Africa
… reference to domestic and foreign case law, and international research into selected aspects of tax administration and behavioural economics (concepts such as tax morale and voluntary tax compliance), concluding that finality is a crucial component of an optimally functioning modern tax …
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In the Shadow of the ‘Big House' Redefining halfway houses within the debate over incarceration
… will use South Africa's halfway houses and some comparative international data to study prisoners' struggle to integrate into a hostile society and the institutions that guide them. What does it mean to be ‘halfway' inside a total institution? Ex-prisoners are caught between two worlds, and …
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Pay Equity: Reassessing gender pay gap, a comparative analysis of South Africa, India and Tanzania
… but the problem is still there. Different international instruments and even domestic legislations have helped advocate and fight for gender pay inequalities, but so far the problem still persists. Despite ratifications and national equity and equal pay legislation, there still remains a …
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Instructional Strategies Used By Effective Mathematics Teachers In Adventist Elementary Schools In Florida: An MQI Analysis
… be a difficult task. United States students on comparative international mathematics assessments consistently rank near the test averages. On a national assessment, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card, more than half of American students rank as ‘not proficient’ in mathematics. The purpose …
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Effective protection?: a comparative analysis of the role of international law in preventing and tackling human trafficking among refugees and asylum seekers in Africa and Europe
… trafficking. This thesis focuses on the role of international law in addressing this problem. The emphasis is on understanding what international law can and does do so that its potential can be maximised, and its weaknesses mitigated. The assessment centres upon three regimes within the body of …
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
<p>This dissertation is a historical comparative education study that revisits colonial education in Cameroon. The purpose of the study is to undertake a broad, documentary, synthetic analysis of the colonial policies of the three formidable Western powers that colonized the country: the Germans …
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Resource Control and Political Development in Africa: The Cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Botswana
Ironically, it appears that the countries with the greatest resource wealth have often had the hardest time achieving political and economic stability. Is there a direct correlation between the way in which natural resources are controlled within a country and its democratic process? How do other …
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Αιτιογνωστική και προγνωστική ανάλυση απουσιών σε κοόρτη εργαζομένων στη βιομηχανία
Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η διερεύνηση του φαινομένου της απουσίας (για λόγους υγείας) από την εργασία στον ιδιωτικό τομέα και ιδίως στη βαριά βιομηχανία, και τη πιθανή επίδραση στην ικανότητα εργασίας. Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή στηρίχτηκε κυρίως στη μελέτη του αρχείου αναρρωτικών αδειών (μιας …