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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Development state"”.
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Toward Context-Sensitive Statebuilding for Development: State-Local Complementarity in Rural Guatemala
… question: What accounts for variation in human development levels across similar communities in conflict-affected countries? In particular it explores how some equally poor, indigenous, highland communities in Guatemala have made advances in health and education, while others have stagnated or …
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State building, capitalism, and development: state-run industrial enterprises in Fengtian, 1920-1931.
… industrial enterprises. The Chinese regional state in the Northeast (known as the Fengtian Clique, 1916-1931) most urgently wanted to develop a modern economy, because it was the only viable way to generate wealth and strengthen the state in the long run. Due to the lack of a full-fledged …
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At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
… Incorporating local stakeholders in project development and implementation has been described by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a large multilateral financial mechanism promoting international cooperation on global environmental protection, as critical to the longevity and impact of …
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A history of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen
… trade, and their significance in the industry's development is assessed. Among the problems that are examined throughout the study and in the conclusion are the reasons for the establishment of the industry in Jingdezhen in the first place, its great progress during the Ming dynasty and failure …
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Essays on the Underlying Capacity of the State and its Effects on Economic Development
… dissertation focuses on three main topics: state capacity, conflict and development. During my progress in my program, I have become more interested in these issues as I have seen how closely linked they are and how they help to explore questions related to prosperity, or the lack of …
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Perpetual Mobilization and Environmental Injustice: Race and the Contested Development of Industrial Agriculture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
… historical exploration of agro-industrial development avoids historical disjuncture by emphasizing the continuity between injustice in the past and injustice in the present. Food insecurity and environmental toxins are produced along with the regions high yields of cotton, corn, rice and …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
… the historical changes that took place in the development of common institutions in West Africa in the pre-independence era. The findings demonstrated that the region exhibited some common institutions, including common currencies, standardised trade rules and protection of trade routes which …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
… the historical changes that took place in the development of common institutions in West Africa in the pre-independence era. The findings demonstrated that the region exhibited some common institutions, including common currencies, standardised trade rules and protection of trade routes which …
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Building Level Administrators' Experiences and Perceptions Regarding Preparation for their Role in Teacher Retention: A Basic Qualitative Study
… preparation programs, principal professional development, and on-the-job experiences. Findings indicated that participants believed their role in teacher retention to be important; however, they tended not to have experienced explicit preparation for teacher retention. Though participants …
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The nature of China’s relations with Africa: A comparative analysis of Sino-Botswana and Sino-Namibia relations
… a specific focus on these two southern African states. The systematic study is grounded in the constructivist theoretical paradigm. Constructivism claims that core issues of international relations, national interests, security, identity, norms, and ideas are socially constructed. The …
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Role of Electric Utility Companies in Economic Development Within Deregulation
… if electric utilities participate in economic development, and if so, how might the trend of electric deregulation affect that relationship. The researcher reviewed the academic literature to determine that electric utilities do, in fact, participate in economic development and significantly …
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Built-in recovery support for explorative programming
… with recovery. Programmers need to recover a development state, or a part thereof, when previously made changes reveal undesired implications. However, when the need arises suddenly and unexpectedly, recovery often involves expensive and tedious work. To avoid tedious work, literature …
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On-line Dynamic Security Assessment in Power Systems.
The thesis concerns the development of tools and methods for on-line dynamic security assessment (DSA). In a future power system with low-dependence or even independence of fossil fuels, generation will be based to a large extent on non-controllable renewable energy sources (RES), such as wind and …
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The link between Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement (PICP) design and nutrient removal
… receiving waters compared with the pre-development state unless mitigated through Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). Permeable Pavement Systems (PPS), one of the source control options in SuDS suite, are able to control stormwater runoff and reduce the discharge of pollutants (Armitage …
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Χρηματοδότηση και γεωγραφική ανάπτυξη του ελληνικού τουρισμού : η περίπτωση της ελληνικής ξενοδοχείας, 1950 – 2005
Η παρούσα εργασία εντάσσεται στο πεδίο της τουριστικής οικονομικής ανάπτυξης. Ειδικότερα, η εξελικτική πορεία του ελληνικού τουρισμού στη βάση επιλεγμένων χαρακτηριστικών των τουριστικών καταλυμάτων και της ασκηθείσας χρηματοδοτικής πολιτικής, τροφοδoτεί ένα πολύ-κριτηριακό σύστημα ταξινόμησης …
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Whatever Happened to Respect? Values and Change in a Southwest Ethiopian (Aari) Community
… people have embarked on a quest for economic development. Motivated by a long-standing concern with building ‘name’ through wealth, the pursuit of development requires shifting resources from kinship and commensality – which afford respect – to modern forms of wealth – which do not. In the …
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The concept of development in Ulawa in Solomon Islands and its implications for national development policy and planning
'Social development' and 'economic development' are complex concepts, concepts that may be interpreted very differently in different contexts and at different times. Not only may the processes involved be different in different contexts, so too may be the criteria by which success is judged. It is …