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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Countrywide"”.
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Forecasting failure : a systems perspective on the fall of Countrywide Financial
Countrywide Financial was acquired by Bank of America on January 11th , 2008 for $4.1 B after losing $1.3B in 2007. Not only was it losing money, its financial prospects at the time looked bleak due to their large stake in subprime mortgages. This effective failure of Countrywide Financial set off …
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Understanding school dropout among adolescents in a rural site of southern Zambia
… Zambia is still in its infancy. Apart from the countrywide annual surveys conducted by the Ministry of Education, no in-depth study on school dropout seems to have been conducted. These surveys have consistently indicated that school dropout is most common among rural adolescents. Thus, this …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
… This ideology has been propagated through countrywide qaomi madrassahs and Jamaat-e-Islami’s devotional activities that are combined with economic, theological, and moral support from Middle Eastern societies. Since the beginning of 1990s, religious militancy, in the name of the Puriterian …
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Flagship Program : its viability in uplifting the women's socio-economic status at Bambanana Area, Kwa-Zulu/Natal
… National Welfare Department estimated that countrywide 67% of female headed-households lived in poverty and that 75.2% of children under 5years were exposed to conditions of poverty. The government planned its developmental programs of women and children under 5years, which was targeted at …
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De-creating Language Borders at the University of Cape Town: “The Fall of English” and the Rise of African Languages in Education
… at UCT and higher education institutions countrywide, where increasingly light falls on the language question within quests for decolonisation and social justice. Focusing the language question within frameworks of decoloniality, glocalisation, translanguaging and the development of …
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Whose toilet is it anyway? : an ethnographic investigation into communally managed and municipally-managed janitor-serviced sanitation facilities in Masiphumelele, Cape Town
… services also in operation in many settlements countrywide. Yet resident-driven sanitation management practices and the site-specific realities of informal settlements have not been adequately understood nor have they informed basic service delivery development. This has in part led to …
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An evaluation of human development through renewable energy provision in an offgrid Tsumkwe settlement area of Otjozondjupa region in Namibia
… crime rates. Replication of such systems countrywide is strongly recommended in order to increase the number of available working hours after sunset, and access to information, thus addressing some of the social and economic needs of the rural population in Namibia.
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The continued transition of the South African National Defense Force: Reserve Force integration and utilization
… a smaller active force while improving countrywide social conditions and minimizing Minis of Defense budget requirements
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Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
… In chapter 2, the longer-term effects of the countrywide arsenic-testing and information-program are examined by tracking tube-well switching behavior of households over a five-year period. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of arsenic information communication formats on tube-well switching …
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“Milano” a fictional novella
… prosecutors have begun the mani pulite, a countrywide judicial investigation that aims to bring to justice businessmen, politicians and others who have aided corruption in multiple industries. The story follows the protagonist Louis Richardson, a 24-year-old Englishman, who has received …
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Edukacinė ir rekreacinė veikla Žagarės regioniniame parke: teorinės ir praktinės galimybės /
… environmental protection is important not only countrywide but worldwide too. Protected territories are being set in order to preserve unique objects of nature and culture. But public awareness is needed too, in order to save those. So generic competence programs are being integrated into …
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Texturing absence: a geography of the disappeared Woodstock Beach
… are made and re-made both in Cape Town, and at a countrywide scale.
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An investigation into the relationship between a firm's working capital management and its profitability: A case study of the Namibian state-owned commercial institutions
… had a combined total of 125 finance employees countrywide and a questionnaire survey was administered to all of them via e-mail. The findings indicated that profitability is positively influenced by working capital management (WCM) in Namibian State-Owned commercial institutions.
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A Study of Remote Area Internet Access with Embedded Power Generation
… pilot projects as building blocks to build a countrywide infrastructure. Since the selected area is one of the least developed and most difficult to access in Bangladesh, demonstrating that the Internet and local power access can be provided to this area can serve as a model for similar places …
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Growth, Poverty, and Capital Structure Effects of Financial Development
… potential role these institutions can play in a countrywide economy. Many studies have found evidence of increases in consumption, savings, and poverty alleviation as the results of microfinance loans at the community level, but not much has been said at the countrywide level. Some theoretical …
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The evolution of the medical professions in eighteenth-century Ireland: An institutional perspective
… surgeon as the primary medical officer in the countrywide network of hospitals. This legislation, which was unique in Europe, had the unintended consequence of elevating the status of the surgeons, as prior to this physicians were always in the ascendancy in the voluntary hospitals in Ireland …
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A visual and theoretical interpretation of sculpted paper as metaphor for the fragility and vulnerability of the human being
… on this theme is of topical value as it is a countrywide, as well as a worldwide phenomenon. This research was undertaken through a literature review, by analysis of relevant artists’ work (particularly those artists whose work engaged with the specific themes of metaphor, the body, memory and …
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Three essays on agriculture, environment and human capital formation in India
… impact of air pollution on infant mortality at a countrywide scale. I find that \emph{in-utero} pollution exposure increases infant mortality risk by more than six percent, with the mortality burden being higher among rural households and the urban poor. In chapter three, I examine whether …
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Information and Communication Technology Skills Dynamics in Mozambique
… levels, and there is a lack of basic ICT skills countrywide. Language and cultural differences constitute barriers to ICT, due to English not being commonly spoken. The infrastructure of the country remains insufficient to fully reap the potential of ICT. As there is insufficient literature …
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Rapid point of care testing for sexually transmitted diseases and bacterial vaginosis: cost estimation and budget impact analysis
… screening service in primary health facilities countrywide. . Sensitivity analyses were carried out to determine the robustness of the study findings. The results demonstrated that the cost per woman screened for genital inflammation was $24.26 at DTHF and $14.32 at UCT SWS. The scaled up costs …
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