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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Country Studies"”.
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The measurement of unemployment in Europe with particular reference to Britain, France and Poland
… of contemporary Western Europe and single country studies of Britain, France and Poland. The former attempts to outline some of the general issues of the measurement of unemployment and to establish a methodological approach for the single country studies. The criteria of choice for closer …
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Cross check survey : World Commission on Dams
… and workshops, 17 thematic reviews, 11 case studies and three country studies. The Cross-Check Survey sought to inform the WCD knowledge base on large dams in a responsible and consequential way but without any claims for being necessarily complete.
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The effects of Conditional Cash Transfer programs on Latin American presidential elections
… claims have been sustained by only a handful of country studies. In this dissertation, I pursue two objectives. First, I analyze an original dataset with information for all Latin American presidential elections carried out between 1990 and 2010 and show that investments in CCT programs have not …
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Essays in entrepreneurial finance
… of their firms. Rather than performing cross-country analyses however, the approach used in this dissertation is to perform within-country studies that shed more light on the mechanisms through which the financing environment impacts entrepreneurial activity. The first two essays in the …
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Expanding vision : Exploring value in youth-led restorative practice
… (RP) continue to grow within schools around the country. Studies tend to focus on how to support school personnel in implementing RP and deal with young people rather than how to partner with them to create spaces for young people to emerge as practitioners in their communities. The young people …
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The Institutional Environment for B2B E-commerce Adoption
… on institutional theory in organizational studies and e-commerce adoption literatures, this dissertation discusses the impact and effect of institutional environment on B2B e-commerce adoption. The institutional environment in question includes industrial, governmental, legal and national …
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Towards the management of Ustilago kamerunensis H Sydow and Sydow, a smut pathogen of napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) in Kenya
… farm incomes in high potential areas of the country. Studies were conducted on the biology and ecology of the pathogen, with the objective of developing technologies for management of the disease. A survey in Kiambu District, central Kenya, of Napier grass plots was used to construct a model …
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How does mainstream print media frame service delivery protests? The application of the protest paradigm and propaganda model in the South African case
… media frame service delivery protests in the country. Studies in countries such as the United States (U.S.), Brazil and Canada show that media coverage of social movements conforms to the protest paradigm by depicting protesters as violent, destructive, unreasonable and a threat to the …
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Essays in economics
… The second chapter (co-authored with Emine Boz) studies a model in which a government issues bonds to fund a project whose return is unknown to private investors. The government has access to a technology that allows it to manipulate the mean of a public signal. Even though investors fully …
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Exploring and describing the responsibilities and functions of emergency medical communication centers in South Africa: a modified delphi study
… and responsibilities described in High-Income Country studies were found to be applicable and were classified by the expert panel as essential for South African EMCC. The methods used as well as the contextualized results could be applied in similar settings to identify developmental …
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Language choice and preference in multilingual families: An analysis of code-switching between the first language and English by selected UNAM main campus lecturers and their families
Namibia is a country that is rich in languages and even though English is the official language, there are officially ten other local/indigenous languages that are spoken in the country. Studies have indicated that the use of English has been observed to be common in many homes in Windhoek, …
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Is financialisation inevitable? The power of finance as a policy choice.
… financial architecture and historical case studies of three countries to show that, after all, financialisation is a policy choice. By tracing these countries’ institutional history, the thesis provides a novel insight into the evolution of national financial systems and how they manage the …
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Genetic diversity and relationships among Nguni cattle populations in three Southern African countries
… the Nguni has been limited to within-country studies. Thus, the aim of the current study was to genetically characterise South African (SA) Nguni, Mozambican Nguni (Landim) and Swazi Nguni populations across Southern African region using a panel of 25 microsatellite markers, …
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Financial innovation and money demand in sub-Saharan Africa
… countries. While a number of empirical studies on the effects of financial innovation have been undertaken for industrialised countries, few developing country studies exist. This is surprising, given the remarkable growth of financial innovation in some developing economies. In …
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Improving corporate governance in Nepalese financial institutions to promote growth and performance
… countries, their applicability in a low-income country such as Nepal may not be efficacious due to differences in political, cultural, social and economic factors. Hence this thesis addresses the requirement for an evidence-based study that evaluates the best fit corporate governance mechanisms …
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Financial structure, economic growth and firm productivity in Sub Saharan Africa
… has been no general agreement on this role. Some studies find that financial intermediaries and markets are both important for growth while some other studies claim the superiority of one type of financial system (bank-based or market based) over the other. There are also studies that argue that …