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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Economic Transformation"”.
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Regional Socio-Economic Transformation in Brazil
… only slightly. This thesis combines traditional economic theory with insights from regional science and economic geography to explain the development pattern in Brazil throughout the 20th century, using a wide range of data sets. It contributes to the consolidation of the field of New Economic …
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Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation
… jobs while others continue to grapple with economic stagnation? This dissertation aims to show how government interventions have shaped U.S. cities' paths to income and employment growth. In the 1980s, nearly every state government in the U.S. began investing in innovation policies aimed at …
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Investigating water and electricity service delivery on South African economic transformation
… and electricity service delivery is central to economic development and inclusive growth. In South Africa, persistent challenges in the provision of these basic services continue to constrain economic transformation and exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities. This study examines the relationship …
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Making nature modern: economic transformation and the environment in the Soviet north
How should we understand the economic relationship of the Soviet Union to the natural environment? This dissertation explores this broad question through a fine-grained study of the environmental history of one particular Russian region in the far north throughout the entire twentieth century. It …
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An analysis on creating balance between economic transformation and investment in Namibia's mining industry
The study is based on inclusive economic transformation and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Namibia's mining industry. The author seeks to find out how the two competing interests can be balanced, so that readers understand the relevance of both to economic growth and poverty alleviation among …
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Socio-economic transformation among traditional cattle keepers in Kafue flood plain in Namwala District, Zambia
… for keeping cattle. This is due to the changing economic environment resulting in an increase in the demand of money in the rural economy with available markets. In addition, following the establishment of commercial cattle buyers such as Zambeef and Starbeef, the socioeconomic situation among …
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… after the voting rights movement failed to bring economic opportunities and justice for black citizens in Selma. At the end of the twentieth century, numbing unemployment, gutted houses, and government transfer payments attested to barriers left unbroken by the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights …
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Towards effective strategy implementation in the public sector : an appraisal of the Zimbabwe agenda for sustainable socio-economic transformation
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences Specialising in Public Management at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Financial System in Economic Development: The Nature and Role of a Robust Financial System in the Economic Transformation of Uganda
<p>Financial System in Economic Development: The Nature and Role of Robust Financial System in the Economic Transformation of Uganda is a thesis that treats the nature and role of the massive network of efficient as opposed to dysfunctional financial institutions and functions in the mobilization …
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The Implications of Socio-Economic Transformation for Social Protection among the old people in Tanzania: A case study of Kawe Ward in Kinondoni District
This thesis investigatedthe implications of socio-economic transformation for social protection among the old people in Tanzania. It argues that old people had been neglected in terms of social and income security despite the National Ageing Policy (2003) as well as the National Social Security …
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Advancing and protecting the interests of creditors and employees under the Companies Act 71 of 2008
… the new Companies Act will have on the socio-economic transformation of the South African society and point out areas where corporate law can do more to help bring about this transformation. It focuses on creditors and employees as key corporate constituencies whose interests the board of …
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The Status of Public Relations in Russia.
… relations has contributed to the political and economic transformation in Russia; and how the former communist propaganda has affected contemporary public relations.</p><p>Telephone interviews were conducted with 10 Russian public relations practitioners. The findings revealed that the 4 models …
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State-business relations and economic transition in the modern world-system: a comparative study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
… Africa and Zimbabwe in order to complete the economic transformation.<br/><br/>The findings suggest that semi-peripheral countries are less fragile than peripheral countries in terms of being susceptible to pressures from domestic and external powers and to shifts in policy choices during …
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Beyond market failures : irrigation, the state, and non-traditional agricultures in Northeast Brazil
… analyzes the role of the state in the economic transformation of three regions of irrigated agriculture in the San Francisco River Basin in Northeast Brazil. It focuses on understanding the reasons why only one of these three regions (Petrolina-Juazeiro) successfully turned into a …
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Analyzing Thabo Mbeki's policy of 'quiet diplomacy' in the Zimbabwean crisis
… government in response to the political and economic crisis that has gripped neighbouring Zimbabwe since the year 2000. Its aim is to explain why South Africa, under the leadership of Thabo Mbeki, adopted the controversial policy widely referred to as 'Quiet Diplomacy'. It uses a …
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Pastoralist systems of the Roggeveld in the 18th and 19th centuries
… despite the fact that the area underwent a major economic transformation in the nineteenth century. The pastoralists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Roggeveld predominantly practiced small-scale subsistence farming. This changed rapidly with the introduction of merino wool sheep in …
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