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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Economic advancement"”.
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Economic advancement or social exclusion? : less-educated workers, cost-of-living and migration in high-tech regions
… industry-choice decisions in the interest of economic growth and social equity in regional development. To provide that backdrop, I empirically answer: How are the benefits of high-tech development distributed between less- and more-educated workers? How does this distribution compare to that …
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Competition law and socio-economic advancement: Nigeria as a case study – giving a hungry man a silk tie?
… that a means of improving the Nigerian socio-economic environment is through a free market economy and a competitive economic environment that has strongly rooted equal and easy access to raw materials, workforce, and technology that would be available to all businesses. It backs the position …
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The challenges of border issues, documentation, and infrastructure in intra-African trade
… have visualised, mobilised, and worked towards economic advancement nationally, regionally, and continentally. In the past 60 or more years there has been a concentration on regional integration as to achieve economic growth and increase global competitiveness. More recently, intra-African trade …
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An Analysis: Complex Interdependence and the Chinese-United States Cyber Relationship
… between the countries' political, economic, military, and social functions. This association has been complicated in the past by Chinese industrial cyberespionage (CE) carried out against United States organizations and individuals in pursuit of economic advancement. This paper …
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Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market'
… theme emerged — discursive tension between economic advancement and community advancement. Cultural discourse analysis points to ways in which the use of these dialectics and this reoccurring theme under tension not only create the culture at this market, but also work to sustain it by …
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TAMILS IN MALAYSIA: PROBLEMS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR AN IMMIGRANT MINORITY GROUP
… Tamils are in an unenviable position for socio-economic advancement in this relatively prosperous southeast Asian peninsula. Locked into a more or less permanent minority representing only about ten percent of the population, they are caught between Malay majority political power and a large, …
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Networks of participation in favelas in Rio de Janeiro : the experiences of community leaders fostering continuous and affective networks to resist oppressive power
… are considered to offer the potential for economic advancement. Informed by a combination of unstructured and semi-structured interviews with community leaders in ‘favelas’ — Brazilian slums — in Rio de Janeiro, this study highlights their knowledge, expertise, and imagination, often …
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Colombian Women’s Experiences of Cosmetic Surgery and its Relationship to Body Image
… in society and can be used as a tool for economic advancement and access to other benefits. The idea of beauty and what is beautiful can differ in some ways, and with it, the cosmetic surgery procedures that are requested. What is considered beautiful and attractive in Colombia was …
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Improving the teaching and learning of science and technology in South Africa : congruence between North West science teachers and science Expo students
… which are crucial to human understanding and to economic advancement. Subsequent to the release of the White paper, a panel of seven South African researchers reviewed the science and technology (S&T) literature and extracted fifteen possible policy recommendations for the improvement of teaching …
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Racial distancing and sensitivity to stigmatization among future black professionals
… has historically been tied to both social and economic advancement. Whether advancement was subjective or objective, there was some form of distancing from the broader Black community. The three studies of the present dissertation used national and regional samples to test the problem of …
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The Contribution of Microfinance Institutions to Entrepreneurship Development in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… within South Africa's distinctive socio-economic landscape, with particular attention to the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province. The research interrogates how financial intermediaries serving excluded populations influence poverty reduction trajectories and economic advancement pathways. …
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Erotic Love and the Development of Proto -Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy
… when it allies with the will of the monarch for economic advancement, political centralization, and a well-ordered society."
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
… depend on a complex intersection of political, economic, cultural, and social forces linking the Dominican Republic and the City. Historic economic and political ties create strong objective and cultural-ideological links between the Island and the United States and give rise to a set of …
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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era
… Americans who hoped it would lead to social and economic advancement for themselves and their race. Despite African American military participation throughout the nation’s history, these soldiers were treated as outsiders through segregated units and often relegated to non-combative duties, until …
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Post colonial Canada? government approach to implementing treaty First Nation land and resource rights
… opportunities for political and socio-economic advancement. In 2016, Canada announced its Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights (RIR) mandate to renew Crown/First Nation relations. New rights-based initiatives would amend domestic laws and policies to reflect international …
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Gender inequalities in manufacturing : a case study of food-processing and the textiles and garment industries in Ghana
… and has also been widely seen as an obstacle to economic development. Wage employment is seen as important mechanism for empowering women, and also conferring benefits on the family and society as a whole. This thesis examines patterns of inequality in the food-processing and the textiles and …
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Navigating College Life: College Transition Experiences and Persistence of Minority Immigrant Students
… best opportunity for upward social mobility and economic advancement. The study indicated that in most cases students considered the cost of college education, geographic location, and college quality as the determining factors in university selection. During the first year of college, the …
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Transatlantic cooperation and the digital economy: The impact of the new strategic agenda “a Europe fit for the digital age”
… the war. Not only did the US support European economic advancement but also European integration. Over the course of the next few decades, the relationship changed. Guided by US hegemony, Europe became increasingly more integrated and more connected. The transatlantic relationship changed from …
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A changing global south? The emergence of the BASIC grouping
The rapid economic advancement of emerging economies in the South has come to effect a change within the nature of the global South and within the traditional North-South relationship more broadly. One development representative of a change within the global South as a unit has been the emergence …
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The diaspora option : a viable solution for the brain drain?
… of a country to contribute to the social and economic advancement of their country of origin by finding ways of setting up links and connections between these highly skilled expatriates and the country of origin The distinguishing feature of the diaspora option is that expatriates don't have to …
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