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Showing 1 to 20 of 2817 for “"DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"”.
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Travel demand modeling for developing countries
… travel. The socio-economic environments in the developing and the under-developed world are different from that prevailing in the developed world. Many urban areas in the third-world contain a mix of ethnic groups or households with structural differences in income and social characteristics. …
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Conflicts and refugees in developing countries
… explaining the rate of economic growth in developing countries. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate whether refugees and conflict help to explain Africa and other developing regions’ rate of economic growth. Economists, especially development economists, have been long engaged …
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Essays on banking in developing countries
… aspects relevant to the banking sectors of developing economies. The first two essays focus on Emerging Europe a region with one of the highest foreign bank presence in the world - to study the impact of foreign bank ownership and bank organizational structure on the cost of financial …
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Japanese educational assistance to developing countries
… Japan has expanded its educational assistance to developing countries and has steadily increased the number of training programs and centers for technical assistance to developing nations both in Japan and overseas. In addition, the Japanese government also has begun to support the rapidly …
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… chapters on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation for quality. A key problem in developing countries is the lack of reliable provision of high quality …
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Environmental policy implementation in developing countries
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Peanut oil press for developing countries
… Health Organization, one third of people in developing countries are malnourished as well as vitamin or mineral deficient. While villagers do not have access to commercially produced vegetable oil (a common source of dietary fat), nor are industrial scale oil extraction methods appropriate …
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Supply chain financing in Developing countries
… chain finance in small and medium sized firms in developing countries. The first phase consists of exploratory, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in international development, financing and supply chain management. The exploratory interviews were used to develop an understanding of how …
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Consequences of Environmental Degradation in Developing Countries
… a global phenomenon affecting populations from countries at varying stages of development, a few of its consequences gain significantly more salience for less developed countries, specifically. I focus on the adverse effects of environmental degradation for two main reasons. On the one hand, it …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries
… that government expenditures are procyclical in developing countries, unlike the countercyclical expenditures observed in high-income countries. This dissertation attempts to explain this phenomenon and to refine this empirical observation. It contains two essays. The first provides a dynamic …
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Technology for Industrial Development of Developing Countries
… the future technology and the development of developing nations throughout the world. The future holds much in store for all nations of the world - developed and developing. How this technology will affect each society remains to be seen. However, with some degree of accuracy, we can attempt …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
This PhD thesis focuses on determinants of labour market outcomes in development economics with a special interest in South Africa and China. After an introduction in chapter 1, the key chapter 2, Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa joint with Sara …
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Context sensitive road planning for developing countries
The majority of South African urban poor live on the periphery of cities, travel long distances to work and school, and are dependent on public transport and walking or cycling (Non-Motorised Transport or NMT) for their travel needs. Road planning practice in South Africa continues to be largely …
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Product market price integration in developing countries
… studies of price setting behaviour in developed countries. This thesis extends the empirical literature by providing new evidence on price setting behaviour and product market integration in developing countries using a unique data set of monthly product prices at the retail outlet level or …
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Bicycle-powered attachments : designing for developing countries
… discusses factors to consider in designing for developing countries and highlights experimental methods that help to optimize the power transmission of bicycle attachments. In comparing power transmission through three main modes off of bicycles, via chain drive and friction drive, this thesis …
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Education and health care in developing countries
… of three essays on education and health in developing countries. Chapter 1 shows that increasing perceived returns to education strengthens incentives for schooling when agents underestimate the actual returns. I conducted a field experiment in Madagascar to study alternative ways to provide …
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Telecommunications development : policy recommendations for developing countries
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Peanut oil press redesign for Developing countries
One of the causes of malnutrition among the rural inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa is the high cost of dietary fats that are necessary to maintain normal body functions. Though the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN recommends an annual intake of 9.6 liters of dietary fats a year per …
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Financing of construction projects in developing countries
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1979.
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Study of nutritional rehabilitation centers in developing countries
The purpose of this study was to assemble information concerning nutritional rehabilitation centers which could prove helpful to persons desiring to organize or participate in such programs. The literature was reviewed to obtain information pertaining to the staff, physical facilities, program, …
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