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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Economic liberalization"”.
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Businessmen and butchers: the domestic roots of Syria's changing foreign policy
… in 1991 --and were driven primarily by domestic economic factors, not by international structures. Syria's increasingly pro-Western foreign policy was a byproduct of economic liberalization policies (infiraj), begun in the early 1980s. For economic liberalization to succeed, Syria had to attract …
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Not yet Soko Huru : the local appropriation of 'free market' discourse in the coffee industry of rural Kenya, Meru District (1998)
… change in Meru District, Kenya following the economic liberalization of the coffee sector. The empirical material presented was collected during fieldwork in Kenya from June to December 1998. The case studies demonstrate how local social actors have appropriated 'free market' discourse (Soko …
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NEOLIBERALISM AND THE INDIAN VERNACULAR PRESS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NEOLIBERAL DISCOURSES AMONG KANNADA JOURNALISTS
… illuminate their understandings of the impact of economic liberalization on Kannada newspapers. The analysis of the responses demonstrated that while journalists from both the newspapers were acutely aware of the changes caused by neoliberal economic restructuring, they normalized such changes. …
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Ideologías Lingüísticas en el Proyecto de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) en Tres Escuelas Municipales de Temuco, Chile
Since the period of economic liberalization in Chile in the 1990s, a series of education reforms have been passed to promote indigenous languages and cultures through bilingual education programs. Additionally, the use of Mapudungun, the language of Chile’s largest indigenous minority, the Mapuche, …
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The Role of Political Behavior and Socio-Economic Development in the Transition and Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Sub Saharan Africa
… power structure (at the micro level) and socio economic development (macro level) in the transition and consolidation of democracy in Sub Saharan Africa. In the analysis, political behavior, defined as the acceptance of political elites to accommodate divergent views, is the most significant …
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The New Indian Middle Class: Work and Gender in the Global Workplace
The policies of economic liberalization that were implemented by the Indian Government from the 1990s exposed the Indian economy and society to global trends. This process created a new Indian middle class which is differentiated from its pre-liberalization counterpart in distinct ways. This PhD …
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Digitalization, Marketization and Authoritarianism in Ethiopia: Towards New Political Economy of Power [védés előtt]
… The findings reveal how digital connectivity and economic liberalization have commodified not only labor and land but also information and behavior. As the state aggressively promotes market-oriented reforms and technological modernization, commodification of information continues to subordinate …
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The right to work in Argentina : job policy and economic rights in a worker cooperative
… their impact to employment retention during economic crisis. Part of the larger social upheaval resulting from failed economic liberalization during the 1990s, ERTs attempt to implement an alternative economic development strategy through self-management of previously private enterprises. …
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Those who don't know : modernity, risk, and transition in Hanoi's local markets
… is about the particular effects of Vietnam's economic liberalization program (known as "doi moi") on the local food and market system in Hanoi. Doi moi policies, which began in the late 1980s, have instituted major changes in both the national system of agricultural production and in Hanoi's …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, I demonstrate how the normative foundations of early free market thought were contested throughout the …
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Building socialist broadcasting with Chinese characteristics : the substance and contradictions of China's broadcasting policy in the Reform Era (1978-1994)
… the whole world. Complex social, political, economic reasons precipitated this tragedy. This thesis attempts to explore the tension between economic liberalization and political totalitarianism, and how it caused increasing contradictions in China's broadcasting system. 'Building socialist …
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
"In an attempt to understand the process of economic liberalization that has swept the globe over the last two decades, scholars of comparative political economy have focused primarily on national-level politics. However, most studies overlook the fact that decentralization has enabled subnational …
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Urbanizing the fringe : armatures for reterritorialization of rurban ecologies
… after India initiated its landmark reforms for economic liberalization, it continues to be challenged in balancing rapid economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability. As the world seeks ways to curtail emissions ahead of a critical juncture in climate change, India's …
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Communication links, Productivity, knowledge transfers, growth and income distribution
… income distribution exert a statistically and economically significant positive impact on local economic growth. This effect becomes more pronounced when the financial sector is more liberalized and deregulated. Preceded by the global changes that occurred since the mid-1980s and 1990s, the …
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Businessmen and authoritarianism in Egypt
… decades, especially after the introduction of economic liberalization. I argue that the Mubarak regime created a new constituency of businessmen who benefited from economic reform and in return provided support to the regime. Based on interviews with Egyptian businessmen and political …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
… the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization and the political mobilization of marginalized sections of the population, also concomitantly emerging within these new urbanscapes. As they intersect with new media practices, community-building and neoliberal restructuring …
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Between global flows & territorial control : the state, tourism development, and the politics of reterritorialization in the Middle East
… by the increased relevance of "place" for global economic activity. With increased globalization firms often seek to locate themselves in specific territories in order to capture what I call locational rents and external economies. In contrast to the dislocating effects of deterritorialization, …
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Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Egypt's Etatist System
This study focuses on the economic and political transformation of the Egyptian state after it applied neoliberal structural adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It demonstrates how the …
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Analysis of Policies Affecting Pesticide Use in Ecuador
… consumption is most affected by the current economic liberalization, the Ecuadoran government may need to find a means for supporting the profitability of these farms to protect national agricultural productivity. Policies that aid these farmers in the adoption of inexpensive integrated pest …
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NGO Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: Interrogating Liberal Peace from the Ground
… approach based on the promotion of democracy, economic liberalization, human rights and the rule of law. As such, NGOs are seen as privatizing peacebuilding, marginalizing local initiatives and applying unsustainable approaches to peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts. Provoked by these …
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